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

Our children's children will hear a good story.

Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

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

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.