“...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.”

“But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story...”

“I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?”

“But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.”

“Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.”

“Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.”

“That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.”