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1. "Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!" ~ Kathryn Lasky
2. "gardians rule" ~ Kathryn Lasky
3. "Why, if one were Queen, would one ever want to marry? If one is ruler, is it not better to both King and Queen? That is exactly what a woman can do if she remains without a mate." ~ Kathryn Lasky
4. "Legenda adalah kisah yang kau rasakan dalam empedalmu dimana dengan berjalan­­nya waktu akan menjadi nyata di dalam hatimu.--Nasihat seekor burung hantu kepada anaknya--" ~ Kathryn Lasky
5. "Did Soren agree to be part of a system to protect Skench and Spoorn and the others?" Barren, the other Snowy monarch, asked in her soft voice.He did indeed, madam," Ezylryb replied. "Soren is a much-misunderstood owl these days. Believe me, Soren will do whatever is required in this invasion." ~ Kathryn Lasky
6. "You are a mask.You are nothing more!There is nothing behind your mask,not a face,nothing!I shall fly in the fullness of the night.Under the moon and the stars I shall hunt the vole,the rat,even the fox.I shall become part of owlkind,no matter where I have to go.But I shall go!And I shall never ever return to the Pure Ones.I defy you.I HAVE FREE WILL!"-Coryn" ~ Kathryn Lasky
7. "And if you can't imagine, nothing will ever happen." ~ Kathryn Lasky
8. "I'll say whatever I want. I'm not a book. You can't burn me!" ~ Kathryn Lasky
9. "Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]?" asked a gray female pup. "Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think he's scared of the raghnaid?" ~ Kathryn Lasky
10. "No one really does know how to have fun here at all. It is all etiquette." ~ Kathryn Lasky
11. "Set your wings upon the sea windSet your eyes upon the streamFeel the billow of the updraftAnd believe in your dreamKnow the mercy of these watersKnow the safety of the skyHear the voices in the distanceAnd believe - they will not lie." ~ Kathryn Lasky
12. "At the edge of the avalancheAt the glacier's icy rimGrows the flower of the snowfieldsTrembling in the wintry wind.It dares to live in edgesWhere naught else would ever grow.So fragile, so unlikelyAn owl slices through this blow.She dares the katabatsHer gizzard madly quivers,But for her dearest of friendsShe vows she shall deliver.Like the lily of the avalancheThe glacier's icy roseLike a flower of the windThe bright fierceness in her glows.The bravest are the smallThe weakest are the strongThe most fearful find the courageTo battle what is wrong." ~ Kathryn Lasky
13. "We dug the asparagus, and tonight Aunt Charlotte cooked it for me herself with butter and melted cheese. I ate a whole plateful and drank half the brown jug of sweet milk. Then I had two slices of the thick coarse-grain bread that Aunt and the nuns make fresh every day." ~ Kathryn Lasky
14. "Death bears with it a stain that seeps into the hollow and fills the mind." ~ Kathryn Lasky
15. "Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)" ~ Kathryn Lasky
16. "They did not hear Grimble, as he lay dying, chant in the true voice of the Boreal Owl, in tones like chimes in the night, an ancient owl prayer, "I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly."" ~ Kathryn Lasky
17. "You ugly rat-faced birds. You call yourself a bird? You call yourself an owl? You ain't no decent kind of fowl! They call you Jatt? They call you Jutt? I'm gonna toss you in a rut! Then I'm gonna punch you in the gut! Then your gonna wind up on your butt! Think you're all gizzard! I seen better lizards. One-Two-Three-Four, You're goin' down, won't ask for more. Five-Six-Seven-Eight, You ain't better than fish bait...Nine-Ten-Eleven-Twelve, I'm gonna send you straight to hell. -Twilight" ~ Kathryn Lasky
18. "We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts. For blizzards our gizzards Dr tremble with joy. An ice storm, a gale, how we love blinding hail. We fly forward and backward, Upside down and flat. Do we flinch? Do we wail? Do we skitter or scutter? No, we yarp one more pellet And fly straight for the gutter! Do we screech? Do we scream? Do we gurgle? Take pause? Not on your life! For we are the best Of the best of the chaws!" ~ Kathryn Lasky
19. "Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo" ~ Kathryn Lasky
20. "One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)" ~ Kathryn Lasky
21. "Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren" ~ Kathryn Lasky
22. "What gives a wriggle And makes you giggleWhen you eat'em? Whose weensy little feetMake my heart really beat? Why, it's those little creepy crawlies That make me feel so jolly. For the darling centipede My favorite buggy feedI always want some more. That's the insect I adoreMore than beetles, more than crickets, Which at times gives me the hiccups. I crave only to feed On a juicy centipede And I shall be happy forevermore." -Soren" ~ Kathryn Lasky
23. "Everything here at St. Aggie's is upside down and inside out. It's our job not to get moon blinked and to stand right side up in an upside down world. If we don't do that we'll never be able to escape. We'll never be able to think. And thinking is the only way we'll be able to plan an escape."-Gylfie" ~ Kathryn Lasky
24. "What is a fleecy as a cloud, As majestic and shimmering as the breaking dawn, As gorgeous as the sun the sun is strong? Why, it's ME!Twilight, the Great Gray, Tiger of the sky --- Light of the Night, Most beautiful, An avian delight. I beam --- I gleam --- I'm a livin' flying dream. Watch me roll off this cloud and pop on back. This is flying. I ain't no hack." ~ Kathryn Lasky
25. "Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my beak. We fly between the flames and never get singed We plunge through the smoke and never cringe. The secrets of fire, its strange winds, its rages, We know it all as it rampages Through forests, through canyons, Up hillsides and down. We track it. We'll find it. Take coals by the pound. We'll yarp in the heart of the hottest flame Then bring back its coals an make them tame. For we are the colliers brave and beyond all We are the owls of the colliering chaw!" ~ Kathryn Lasky
26. "Hush little owl, You're with Twi. I got the moves to get you by. Big bad crows. St. Aggie's scamps Ain't got nothin to show the champ. I'll pop a spiral With a twist, Do a three-sixty And scatter mist----" ~ Kathryn Lasky
27. "Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou.When had it all started, where will it end?We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different.Yet one.One and again." ~ Kathryn Lasky
28. "What are emotions exactly?' Lutta asked. 'Silly feelings that get in the way of actions." ~ Kathryn Lasky
29. "Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger" ~ Kathryn Lasky
30. "Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette" ~ Kathryn Lasky
31. "We're going to bash them birds, Them rat-feathered birds. Them bad-butt owls ain't never heard 'Bout Gylfie, Soren, Dig, and Twilight Just let them get to feel my biteTheir li'l ole gizzards gonna turn to pusAnd our feathers hardly mussed. Oh, me. Oh, my. They gonna cry. One look at Twilight, They know they're gonna die. I see fear in their eyes And that ain't all. They know that Twilight's got the gall. Gizzard with gall that makes him great And every bad owl gonna turn to bait." ~ Kathryn Lasky
32. "It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami's voice. But I am not frightened. I am joyous. Joyous with realization. For I cannot help but think what a lucky person I am. Imagine that in all the eons of time, in all the possible universes of which Dara speaks, of all the stars in the heavens, Ami and I came together for one brief and shining sliver of time. I stop. I think.Supposing in the grand infinity of this universe two particles of life, Ami and me, swirl endlessly like grains of sand in the oceans of the world -- how much of a chance is there for these two particles, these two grains of sand, to collide, to rest briefly together... at the same moment in time? That is what happened with Ami and me... this miracle of chance." ~ Kathryn Lasky
33. "I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write." ~ Kathryn Lasky
34. "Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected." ~ Kathryn Lasky
35. "You must not think of time as a quantity, a period, a measure. Look at the sky," Gwynneth said. "The moon has now slipped away to another night, into another world. It was not the time it was here that you remember, Faolan, but rather the luminescence of the air, the blue shadows cast by the trees in its light. It was not the length of the time but the quality of the moon's light that you felt and remember." Gwynneth paused. "It is the value, the quality that lives on." ~ Kathryn Lasky
36. "I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see." ~ Kathryn Lasky
37. "Every pellet has a story all its own. Every pellet has a story all its own. With its fur and teeth and bonesAnd one or two stones, Every pellet has a story all its own. We shall dissect every pellet with glee. Perhaps we'll find a rodents knee. And never shall we tire In the sacred task that we conspire, No do our work less perfectly And those bright flecks at the core, Which makes our hearts soar, Shall forever remain the deepest mystery.- The owlets in the Pelletorium at St. Aegolius" ~ Kathryn Lasky
38. "I don't think real friends would be jealous. -Primrose" ~ Kathryn Lasky
39. "I am like glass to him, like water, Hannah thought to herself, alone now in the music room, heart racing. He sees through me, but how? Page: 97" ~ Kathryn Lasky
40. "She told them simply and directly that the meadow was a place of peace and beauty, where indeed if one came to it in a quiet manner, the animals would not be disturbed; for there are lovely birds, and squirrels and field mice, and sometimes deer." ~ Kathryn Lasky
41. "It dawned on her in that moment that what she had loved so much when she heard the harp's music and then began to play in the midst of the storm was this sense or suggestion of a place, a world without such rules. A place where boundaries simply did not exist, but living things moved freely, in a limitless space, and yet were still connected to everything in much the same way the harp's music enveloped all the people in the music room last night. Page: 159 - 160" ~ Kathryn Lasky
42. "The path is a ribbon of moonlight across a dusky sea.The wind sings a song that beckons us To that great and mighty tree.We are the Greenowls of Ambala, clad in raiments of moss,Sprigged with lichens and grassesThen gilded with silvery frost.Fair and square we play- for a sporting lot we are.We ride the boisterous Balefire gustsAnd we reach for every star." ~ Kathryn Lasky
43. "For Twilight, it was like the echo of a song- a song from long ago. He could almost remember some of the words, but had no clue as to where they had come from. There had been a wonderful voice singing it, singing this song just for him. A voice like silk? Satin? Like liquid moonlight, it flowed, it curled around him and suffused him with a glowing warmth." ~ Kathryn Lasky
44. "What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh." ~ Kathryn Lasky
45. "bend over freddy of prussia let the empress take aim your butt will fly to russia and your brains to sunny spain" ~ Kathryn Lasky
46. "My own brother. My very own brother is Metal Beak and he wants to kill me." ~ Kathryn Lasky
47. "Soren had been at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree for almost a month," ~ Kathryn Lasky
48. "So in that dark and tangled night,the chaw of chaws rose to flight,with talons bloodied, feathers singed.A battle won - a war begins!" ~ Kathryn Lasky
49. "I'm naked under this dress. Naked as a jaybird," she said pointedly and looked at the matron."Oh, my! She'll have to be broken!" Mrs. Phillips said and smiled. "Well, dear, we're the rodeo capital of Kansas. Bronco busting is our specialite." She pronounced the word in a foreign sounding way." ~ Kathryn Lasky
50. "gaddergludder," ~ Kathryn Lasky
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I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical."
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