“Every bird you downed bore pebbles in its gizzard from a land the maps ignored.”
“The crafty otter produced a flat pebble from his helmet, spat on one side of it, and held it up for the bird to see. 'Right, I'll spin ye. Dry side, I win, wet side, you lose. Good?' The honey buzzard nodded eagerly... Buteo's keen eyes watched every spin of the stone until it clacked down flat on the deck. Garfo grinned from ear to ear. 'Wet side! You lose!”
“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”
“Yeah the world as I see it, is a remarkable place Every man makes a difference and every mother’s child is a saint From a birds eye view I can see, we are spiraling down in gravity From a birds eye view I can see, you are just like me ((The World as I see It))”
“To them she wore the costume of the oppressed from distant lands and was the poster child of backwardness in a forward thinking world. To her, their faces bore the costume of the ignorant, and they were poster children for gross close-mindedness in an open-minded, ever changing world”
“Oh it's a pebble... But it's a really nice pebble Dad thanks.”