Watership Down 1978 quotes, page 3

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

But what happened?

Our warren, destroyed!

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.

Men have always hated us.

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

Sometimes I can tell when things are true. Sometimes... I can see it... The high down with trees, and... [shakes head] I've become foolish.

Bigwig

You'll have to meet this friend of mine. He talks just like that.

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

Look, we can't go on like this.

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.

How MUCH longer?

We never should have left.

Suppose Fiver's all wrong?

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!

It had just killed. I saw blood on it's lips.

Lucky for us it had, otherwise it might have been quicker!

Kehaar

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.

Kehaar

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!

Bigwig

It's working, Hazel.

Kehaar

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.

Hazel

What a splendid idea, Kehaar!

How clever of you to think of it. You very fine bird.

Bigwig

I told you once that I was trying to impress you... I hope I have.

And I told you I would kill you myself! There's no white bird here, Bigwig!

Run! Run for your lives! Run!

Come back! Come back, you fools!

Run!

Come back! Come back and fight! Dogs aren't dangerous!
[the dog drops a dead Efrafan and then comes after Woundwort, who lunges]

Bigwig, you traitorous...! [to a subordinate] Captain, get this miserable group back to their Marks. I'll settle you myself, Bigwig. There's no need to take you back.

Bigwig

Come on and try, you cracked-brain slave driver!

Kehaar

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! KAH, KAH, KAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! [swoops down and attacks Woundwort]

Get away! Blast you! Get away, you damn white bird!

Hazel

Are you hurt?

Kehaar

KAH, KAH!

Hazel

Bigwig, I've got an idea. See if you can find some worms--

Bigwig

Worms? What for, for Frith's sake?

Kehaar

I get up plenty soon!

Hazel

Well if he's hurt, maybe we ought to help him.

Bigwig

A bird? What for?

Hazel

We - help - you.

Kehaar

PISS OFF!!! What for help me?

Kehaar

He tell me the plan?! I KNOW the plan!

Kehaar

Damn cat jump me, farm cat.

Kehaar

From Beeg, BEEG VAWTER! ("Big Water") My home near Beeg Vawter... Beeg Vawter... We go "Kehaaaaar"... "Kehaaaaaaaar"... "Kehaaaaar"...

Kehaar

PISS OFF!!! What for help me?

Hazel

Let him be. He's had a bad time. He can tell us about it when he's rested.

Hazel

You look hungry! Rats getting too clever, I suppose?