“Dawn will come even if the rooster is strangled.”

“Hungry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.”

“Dawn comes before sleep does.”

“The little hen poked her head up from the hole she had dug and looked at the crowing rooster. She thoughtfully looked from the rooster in the window sill to the high row of nests that rose against the end wall of the hen house. She started to dig again, but then she hurried through the loose straw to the nests. The time had come to lay an egg.”

“For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.”

“The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.”

“Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.”
Triste est omne animale post coitum, praeter mulierem gallumque

“You're the reason I get out of bed every night. And you're the reason I can't wait to come home every dawn. Not the war. Not the Brothers. Not even Butch. It's… you.”

“It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”

“Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door.”