A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.
There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit’s. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.
Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.
They’re all so much afraid of the Council that they’re not afraid of anything else.
You can’t call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it’s worth having at the price you pay.
You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it’s not that simple.
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, ‘That wasn’t why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.
[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.
You’re trying to eat grass that isn’t there. Why don’t you give it a chance to grow?
A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass.
Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not
Bigwig: “I can’t think why he didn’t convince Threarah.”Hazel: “Because Threarah doesn’t like anything he hasn’t thought of for himself.
Hazel, like nearly all wild animals, was unaccustomed to look up at the sky. What he thought of as the sky was the horizon, usually broken by trees and hedges.
They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don’t realize that everyone’s good depends on everyone’s cooperation.
Most of them had not understood Blackberry’s discovery of the raft and at once forgot it.