Shade quotes from Silverwing

Shade

[to Zephyr's projection of a pigeon] Owls probably killed my dad, they burned down my home, and then you guys tried to kill me and Marina! I hate all birds!!

Shade

We have to find my colony before Goth and Throbb do, or they'll all be eaten and it will all be my fault!

Shade

Here in the Northern forest we have a custom of beginning every meal with...a salad!

Shade

[to Goth] I want you to take us both to the jungle to live like royalty with Throbb as our servant.

Shade

Goth's not so smart after all.

Shade

I'm starving. Let's go grab some bugs!

Shade

[after rescuing Ariel] Thanks, Chinook. I owe you one.

Chinook

Look around. It's no just me you owe.

Frieda

We were forbidden from ever seeing the sun again.

Shade

Is that how we got stuck with the law? That is so unfair! I hate the owls!

Chinook

My father's huge! You'll see him when we get to Hibernaculum, if your runty little wings can make the migration. Then again, why bother when you don't have a dad anyway.

Shade

Don't talk about my dad like that!

Chinook

Your dad was bad news! He was a trouble maker and a coward.

Shade

My dad was not a coward, fruit bat.

Chinook

You know what I was just thinking? We could not see the sun and say we saw it. How about that?

Shade

Oh, really...

Marina

So maybe the band doesn't mean certain death!

Shade

That orca didn't get you.

Marina

Maybe it means that I'm going to become an elder, too!

Shade

Elder Marina...I like the sound of that!

Shade

You have this place all to yourself?

Marina

Pretty much.

Shade

Uh! We're totally surrounded by water!

Marina

Duh! That's what an island is.

Shade

I guess you'll get to meet Frieda after all.

Marina

Then it's settled. We'll head to the mainland...together! [To Shade] Hey Short-Stuff, check this out. See those holes? They (Orcas) breathe through them. Where have you been living? Under a rock?

Shade

No! In a tree.

Marina

When do we leave?

Shade

Leave?

Marina

Yeah. To join your colony so I can meet this Frieda!

Marina

An elder? Banded? Like me?

Shade

Well, maybe not exactly like..

Marina

And she's old?

Shade

Practically ancient.