They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree.

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates.

One does not have to be Witted to know the companionship of a beast, and to know that the friendship of an animal is every bit as rich and complicated as that of a man or woman.

I think I made a better boy than I do a man, I admitted ruefully to the wolf. Why not wait until you've been at it a bit longer and then decide? he suggested.

That is one thing that in all my years among your folk I have never become accustomed to. The great importance that you attach to what gender one is.

I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good, " they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.

Well, I’m just going to say it.I’m listening, Louis said.I wonder if you would consider coming to my house sometimes to sleep with me.

I will work while I can.

The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.

If each day is a gift, I'd like to know where to return Mondays!

God needs blood to fix the universe, but only his own blood had enough magical power to do it, so he gave himself a body and then killed it.

Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.