“Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.”

“They are all so beautiful,' she said. He looked down at her. 'Not half so beautiful as you are,' he said. 'Nor do they speak to me, nor touch me. Even Fourpaws will not touch me. Beauty, will you marry me?”

“One doesn't generally look into mirrors when one is especially angry; one has better things to do, like pace the floor or throw things.”

“Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.”

“This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master.”

“The merrel also knew its wing had not healed. But I could reach a great height once more before it failed me, it said. And from there I would fold my wings and plummet to the earth as if a hare or a fawn had caught my eye; but it would be myself I stooped toward. It would be a good flight and a good death. And so I eat their dead things cut up on a pole, dreaming of my last flight.”

“we may not like it, but we need human friends, because we have human enemies whether we will or nay.”