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“I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.”

Variant: I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still cannot see. (Mrs. Plithiver)
Source: The Journey

“Blood hardly defines one's character. We are made by our actions, not our blood. - Soren”

Source: The Golden Tree

“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”

Kathryn Lasky

Source: The Capture

“A legend, Kludd, is a story that you begin to feel in your gizzard and then over time it becomes true in your heart. And perhaps makes you become a better owl.”

Kathryn Lasky

Source: The Capture

“Legends were not only for the desperate. Legends were for the brave. (Soren)”

Kathryn Lasky

Source: The Capture

“Flutter like a hummingbird,
Dive like an eagle,
Ain't no bird that's my equal.
- Twilight”

Kathryn Lasky

Source: The Capture

Kathryn Lasky Quotes about flying

“You can do it! You believe! Feel it in your gizzard. You are a creature of flight. Fly, my children. Fly!”

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Grimble; Chapter Twenty-two: "The Shape of the Wind", p. 162
The Capture (2003)

“Gylfie looked at Soren gravely. "That is why we must learn how to fly before the next newing."
"But I won't be ready. I won't have enough feathers," Soren said.
"Almost, though."
"Almost? There's a difference, Gylfie, between almost and enough."”

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"Yes. The difference is belief, Soren. Belief."
Source: The Capture (2003), Chapter Nineteen: "To Believe", p. 139

“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

Old Boreal Owl prayer, Grimble's last words; Chapter Twenty-two: "The Shape of the Wind", p. 162
The Capture (2003)

Kathryn Lasky Quotes

“Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette”

Kathryn Lasky

Source: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria - France, 1769

“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

Source: The Rescue

“One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma)”

Kathryn Lasky

Source: The Outcast

“Gylfie turned to Digger and spoke, "Come with us, Digger."
"But where is it you're going?" he asked.
"To the Great Ga'Hoole Tree."
"What?" said Digger, but before Twilight could answer, Streak broke in. "I've heard of that place, but isn't it just a story, a legend?"
"To some it might be," Twilight said, and blinked at the eagle.
But not to owls, thought Soren. To owls, he thought, it is a real place.”

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Source: The Capture (2003), Chapter Twenty-seven: "Horten se's Eagles", pp. 215–216

“[After discovering Soren's former home is abandoned] Then Twilight spoke, "Soren, they're gone. Maybe something happened to them. You shouldn't take it personally. Buck up now, old buddy."
"Personally? What do you know, Twilight, that is personal about any family? You've never had a family. Remember, you're always telling us about how much you learned in your own orphan school of tough learning. You don't know the feel of a mother's down. You don't know what it's like to hear stories from a father, or to hear him sing. Do you know what a psalm is, Twilight? I bet you don't. Well, we Barn Owls know about psalms and books and the feeling of down."
Twilight's feathers had ruffled up, spiky with ice crystals. He looked fearsome. "I'll tell you what I know, you miserable little owl. The whole world is my family. I know the softness of a fox's fur, and the strange green light that comes into their eyes during the spring moons. I know how to fish because I learned from an eagle. And when meat is scarce I know how to find the ripest part of a rotten tree and peck the juiciest bugs from it. I know plenty."”

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Source: The Capture (2003), Chapter Twenty-four: "Empty Hollows", p. 181

“"You just hatched out two weeks ago." Kludd turned to Soren, his younger brother. "What do you know about sisters?"
Maybe, Soren thought to himself, they would be better than brothers.”

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Source: The Capture (2003), Chapter One: "A Nest Remembered", p. 1

“Once upon a very long time ago, in the time of Glaux, there was an order of knightly owls, from a kingdom called Ga'Hoole, who would rise up each night and perform noble deeds. They spoke no words but true ones, their purpose was to right all wrongs, to make strong the weak, mend the broken, vanquish the proud, and make powerless those who abused the frail. With hearts sublime they would take flight…”

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Noctus, Kludd's father, telling a legend of Ga'Hoole, repeated throughout the series; Chapter One: "A Nest Remembered", p. 14
The Capture (2003)

“"I don't really know what happened. I just fell out of the nest." But the second Soren said those words he felt a weird queasiness. He almost knew. He just couldn't quite remember, but he almost knew how it had happened, and he felt a mixture of dread and shame creep through him. He felt something terrible deep in his gizzard.”

Kathryn Lasky

Soren explaining to Gylfie how he got captured; Chapter Three: "Snatched!", p. 29
The Capture (2003)

“Oh, if only I were perfectly moon blinked [hypnotized]. If only I were…”

Kathryn Lasky

Grimble; Chapter Nineteen: "To Believe", p. 143
The Capture (2003)

“Gylfie felt that the moment was right. "You are the last owl in the world that I would ever say lacked humility, 12-8. You are for my friend and myself a perfect example of humility. You are beyond humbleness! You are…" Gylfie was madly searching for a word. What's she going to say next? Soren couldn't imagine. He had never seen such a demonstration of outrageous fawning. "You are subglaucious." 12-8 blinked at the word as did Soren, who had no idea what subglaucious meant. "We, my friend and I, only wish that we could serve in the eggorium and thus attain such humbleness as yourself."
"Your words are kind, 25-2. I shall hope that they might encourage me in my continuing quest for humility while in service to a great cause." She wandered off looking a tad more moon blinked than before, if that was possible.
"What in Glaux's name is subglaucious?" Soran said as soon as she was out of earshot.
"No idea. I made it up."”

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Source: The Capture (2003), Chapter Thirteen: "Perfection!", pp. 102–103

“Bye-bye," Auntie cooed, and waved a tattered wing. "Bye-bye, 12-8, you fool!”

Kathryn Lasky

After she kills Hortense; Chapter Seventeen: "Hortense's Story", p. 128
The Capture (2003)

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