Shade quotes from Silverwing

Marina

Hey! Where do you think you're going?

Shade

Anywhere you aren't.

Shade

What's wrong with your fur?

Marina

Wrong? What do you mean? There is nothing wrong with my fur!

Shade

It's all...light.

Marina

Ha! Small and clueless. I'm a Brightwing, of course.

Shade

[regarding about the tower] This isn't it.

Marina

Then where is it? Honestly, Shade, I feel like I'm doing everything!

Shade

I've never actually called up the sound map before.

Marina

Yeah, right! Quit playing games! [pause] You're not kidding, are you?

Shade

Who in their right mind would put a guy who can't see in charge of air traffic control?

Marina

Because maybe sometimes hearing might be the best way of seeing.

I just came here to hide.

Shade

Hide? From what?!

Giant bats. They attacked my family.

Shade

Well they probably had a good reason! I know I would!

Marina

I'll pick, you stand guard.

Shade

What am I gonna guard against? A plant?

Shade

[to Marina] Goth and Throbb don't just eat meat, they eat bats!

Goth

[to Shade sympathetically] A boy, without a father.

Remus

[to Brutus] This isn't our fight! [to an owl] What are you going to do? Eat me because I don't agree?

Shade

Why do you think humans band bats anyway?

Goth

To imprison us so they can steal the secret of our night vision!

Marina

I don't feel right traveling with those two meat-eaters.

Shade

We eat bugs. That probably grosses them out.

Shade

I hate the owls even more than I hate the treaty.

Goth

Treaty?

Shade

Basically, all bats were punished for not taking sides in the battle of the birds and the beasts. That's why we have to fly at night.

Goth

All we want is to get back to our home in the south, but we cannot read these northern stars.

Shade

You could travel with Marina and me. We're headed south to find my colony.

Goth

We would be delighted, and in return let us offer you our protection.

Marina

[staring at Goth's body] It's over, Shade.

Shade

No... it's just begun.

Marina

[to Shade] It's great to see that Zephyr's lesson with the pigeon had an impact on you.

Goth

[to Throbb] I can be hungry or cold, not both. I say we roost.

Orestes

The electricity is generated at the damn. That's called hydroelectrical power. Then, it is relayed here to...

Shade

Can we lose the science lesson please?

Marina

[referring to Orestes] If we leave him here he could die.

Shade

So what? Who cares? He's an owl!