Quotes from Richard Adams, Watership Down

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.

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