“I was merely cursing, under my breath, God and man, under my breath, and the wet Saturday afternoon of my conception.”

“Peace be with you," I said, and as I turned to resume my journey with Coyote, I added under my breath, "and asskicking be with me.”

“How shall I tell ye what it is, to feel the need of a place?" he said softly. "The need of snow beneath my shoon. The breath of the mountains, breathing their own breath in my nostrils as God gave breath to Adam. The scrape of rock under my hand, climbing, and the sight of the lichens on it, enduring in the sun and the wind."      His breath was gone and he breathed again, taking mine. His hands were linked behind mv head, holding me, face-to-face."If I am to live as a man, I must have a mountain," he said simply.”

“We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.”

“When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality.”

“And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would have had that in, too.”