“We are our own dragons and our own heroes. We must rescue ourselves from ourselves.”

“We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”

“We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”

“All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement, you in flight and I in my tree. But there is poetry in the meanest of lives, and if we leave it unsought we leave ourselves unrealized. A life without food, without shelter, without love, a life lived in the rain—this is nothing beside a life without poetry.”

“Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.”

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”

“I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”