Tied for 6th most-quoted character in Watership Down (1978): in 7 of its 58 quotes
Most scenes with: Hazel (4), Bigwig (4), Dandelion (4)
Scenes with Blackberry
7 scenes
[while all are digging in the rain]
What's happening back home, I wonder? Think, when we lived in our own burrows? Dry, soft, warm bodies...
[to Hazel]
Look, we can't go on like this.
It keeps getting worse and worse wherever we go. Where ARE we going?
It won't be much longer, then we can all rest.
We never should have left.
Blackberry Suppose Fiver's all wrong?
We want to go back and find out.
Go back? After all we've been through?
And probably get killed for wounding Captain Holly? An Owsla officer? Talk sense, for Frith's sake!
[they believe Bigwig to be dead]
You pay for it! The food, the warren! But no one must ever ask where anyone was or speak of the wires! The whole placed is snared! Everywhere, every day!
Let's drive them out, take their warren and live there ourselves!
Blackberry Back to the warren!
Yes! Yes! Yes, back to the warren!
Embleer Frith, you fools! That warren's nothing but a death hole! Yes, let's help ourselves to a roof of bones!
[waking up, still choking]
I'll kill them.
H Holly
[to Fiver]
I remember you. You're the one that saw it coming.
H Holly
Our warren, destroyed!
H Holly
Men came. Filled in the burrows. Couldn't get out. There was a strange sound. Hissing. The air turned bad. Runs blocked with dead bodies. I couldn't get out. Everything turned mad. Warren, herbs, roots, grass, all pushed into the earth.
Blackberry Men have always hated us.
H Holly
No. They just destroyed the warren because we were in their way.
[After the rabbits decide to ask Kehaar to find mates for them] [sitting and musing in a burrow]
What home? This hole? Where are mates? Where are chicks? Mate make eggs, mate sit on eggs, hatch eggs, many eggs. We feed chicks. Egg robbers come, we fight.
[Bigwig pounces on him from behind to get his attention]
YAAAAAAAAAH, YAAAAAAAAAAH!!! KAH, KAH, KAH, KAH, KAH, KAH, KAH!!! YOU STUPID BUNNIES! You got no mates! Where are mates?! WHERE ARE CHICKS?! Plenty trouble for you! You need MATES!
[whispering]
It's working, Hazel.
You got no brains! You no plan! You need mates for plan! Listen - I got plan for you. Wing better. I go fly; fly for you. I find mates.
What a splendid idea, Kehaar!
Blackberry How clever of you to think of it. You very fine bird.
Blackberry Fiver, there's been some trouble. Hazel's been shot.
Blackberry The Black Rabbit serves Lord Frith, but he does no more than his appointed task.
[As Hazel and Fiver prepare to leave Sandleford in the night, Blackberry joins them.]
Who's that?
Blackberry It's me.
Blackberry No. Blackberry. Dandelion told me you were leaving the warren tonight. [several other rabbits join them] If it's true, I'd like to come along.
V Violet
We'd like to come along too.
I don't much like the look of things.
That Toadflax fellow followed me down the run. It could mean the Owsla has been turned out tonight.
Then the sooner we're off, the better.
They need to rest, Hazel.
Something up ahead. [sniffs and sees a bean field nearby]
A warm, friendly burrow, perhaps?
No, no, no, not a burrow. A field. A great field of scented plants that will cover us sight and sound until we're rested.
Blackberry You're beginning to sound like a chief, Hazel. Hazel-rah!
Hazel-rah? That'll be the day I call him chief, that will.
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