Then the wind strengthened, bringing a sound that seemed to stretch across the forest from end to end -- a sound like a dry waterfall or the breathing of a giant -- the sound of the smell of the fear.
~~~Shardik

She had turned out, he thought sorrowfully, like some beautiful ceremonial weapon, all fine inlay and jewels, which proved to have neither balance nor cut.
~~~Shardik

My heart has joined the Thousand for my friend stopped running today.
~~~Watership Down

He felt that the darkness itself was alive and hated him, and it never changed, never slept, never spoke. All it had to do was to wait for him to go mad, to break down, to give up and surrender. Then he would have lost and the implacable darkness would have won.
~~~Watership Down

Suddenly El-ahrairah cried out loudly to the King, "Your Majesty, do but give us this sense and I promise you and every creature here that my people shall become to the human race the greatest scourge and tribulation in the world. We will be to them, everywhere, a relentless bane and affliction. We will destroy their greenstuff, burrow under their fences, spoil their crops, harass them by night and day."
At this, cheering broke out among all the creatures in the audience.
~~~Watership Down

". . . . All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."
~~~Watership Down

To him perplexity was worse than danger; and when he was perplexed he usually grew angry.
~~~Watership Down

To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse -- the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.
~~~Watership Down

We do not take the moonlight for granted. It is like snow, or like the dew on a July morning. It does not reveal, but changes what it covers.
~~~Watership Down

Now, as you all know, the Black Rabbit of Inle is fear and everlasting darkness. He is a rabbit, but he is that cold bad dream from which we can only entreat the Lord Frith to save us today and tomorrow.
~~~Watership Down

There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.
~~~Watership Down

Not all strange things are bad.
~~~Watership Down

It seemed to Hazel that he would not be needing his body anymore, so he left it lying on the edge of the ditch. . . .
~~~Watership Down

"Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?"
~~~Plague Dogs

"When we aren't here any longer, when we're not hungry or cold, we'll miss it. We'll wish we were."
~~~Plague Dogs

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