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“I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.”
“I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action.”
“Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going t...”
“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.”
“You will live to love again. You know you have lost your springtime girl, your Molly on the beach with the wind in her brown hair and red cloak. You have been gone too long from her, and too much h...”
