Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

Who knows why men do anything?

Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.