“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.”

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

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

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

“Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to frighten cowards with the threat of evil and of sin. But the power that lives beyond those stories, and makes them strong indeed, that lives in nightmares and in sleep. That is ribbed into the very fabric of conscious being. The power of love and hate.”

“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?”

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