“The rod that beat you is broken but you have no reason to be glad. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon -- The Rule of Void”
“Aye, they be eggs alright, just not from thunder. They be Cinderflare's eggs. They be all broken 'cause the young'ns hatched a few months ago.”
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
“Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.”
“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.”
“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.”