“No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground.”

“But he was calm, like a hunter who is sure that he will catch his prey in the end, however confusing the trial.”

“A hunter in love with his prey.”

“This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter!”

“On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.”

“The Shy Hunter is terrified that others will destroy the truth within his heart, Rose said, And so the Shy Hunter armours himself ... thus armoured, he watches and waits and studies the world meticulously, hunting the world for prey ... Prey not in the sense of devouring or murder, Rose said, But prey in the sense of hunting for sore truths within another human heart.”