“An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.”
“Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?”
“Well roared, lion.”
“Between roars the lion purrs.”
“He feels the need to hear a human voice—a fully human voice like his own. Sometimes he laughs like a hyena or roars like a lion—his idea of a hyena his idea of a lion.”
“But what does he want my heart for?" the little queen asked."He just wants to own it," replied the sea lion. "That is enough. He wants to look on its beauty and know that his hands alone can touch it.”