Pipkin quotes from Watership Down (1978)

Pipkin

What's happening back home, I wonder? Think, when we lived in our own burrows? Dry, soft, warm bodies...

Dandelion

Look, we can't go on like this.

Silver

It keeps getting worse and worse wherever we go. Where ARE we going?

Hazel

It won't be much longer, then we can all rest.

Silver

How MUCH longer?

Pipkin

We never should have left.

Blackberry

Suppose Fiver's all wrong?

Pipkin

We want to go back and find out.

Hazel

Go back? After all we've been through?

Bigwig

And probably get killed for wounding Captain Holly? An Owsla officer? Talk sense, for Frith's sake!

Fiver

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!

Silver

They left Bigwig to die!

Dandelion

Silver's right!

Silver

Let's drive them out, take their warren and live there ourselves!

Dandelion

Yes!

Blackberry

Back to the warren!

Pipkin

Yes! Yes! Yes, back to the warren!

Fiver

Embleer Frith, you fools! That warren's nothing but a death hole! Yes, let's help ourselves to a roof of bones!

Bigwig

I'll kill them.

I remember you. You're the one that saw it coming.

Pipkin

But what happened?

Our warren, destroyed!

Silver

Destroyed? How?

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.

No. They just destroyed the warren because we were in their way.

Bigwig

There's a dog loose in the wood!

Silver

Well, that does it!

Pipkin

A dog?

Bigwig

Come on. What do you think will happen when he picks up our scent? Those that can swim, swim. The others will have to make out the best they can.

Hazel

That's not good enough. We all got into this together, we'll all get out of it together.