Brutus quotes from Silverwing

Brutus

[to the cardinal] You'll lead a squadron of my owls to the water tower. We'll talk about hunting rights after the entire Silverwing colony is annihilated!

Brutus

The death of an owl by a bat is the final straw. I am closing the skies to all bats! All bats are fair game until the treaty violators are brought to justice!

Brutus

[to Bathsheba] My only son in league with the Silverwings?! If you are lying, you've drawn your last breath, bat!

Brutus

It has been said that a good leader can admit when they've been wrong. I've been wrong about the Silverwings, wrong about my son, and so very wrong about Shade. Long ago, all bats were banished to the darkness for not taking sides. Today, they took a side! Today, you have earned all bats the right to fly night... or day!

Brutus

[to Frieda] I demand only you, Shade Silverwing, his Brightwing accomplice and...my son.

Brutus

[to Luger] Without Bathsheba, we wouldn't have found it at all.

Frieda

No Silverwings will be sacrificed for the sake of your unjust law!

Brutus

UNJUST LAW?! Give us the boy!

Frieda

No. I have spoken.

Brutus

Bring the boy to me, so we can settle this.

Frieda

No.

Brutus

Do as I say.

Frieda

I will not.

Luger

What's in it for us?

Brutus

Obeying the law! That's what's in it for you.

Luger

Like that's ever persuaded us.

Remus

It seems to me that you owls are being far too self-serving. Life and death are part of the natural cycle of things.

Brutus

But this was an unnatural act!

Brutus

Are you proposing that those puny perpetrators have kidnapped Orestes?!

Uh...yes sir. That's what appears to have happened.

Brutus

Now it's personal! That bat will regret the day he first took wing!

Marina

[to Brutus] If we were owl killers, would we have saved your son?

Orestes

Father, they did save me.

Brutus

Quit defending them, boy!

Orestes

You never listen to me!

Brutus

We're at war, son. Stop acting like a nervous pigeon and do your duty.

Orestes

But my wing still aches from yesterday's maneuvers.

Brutus

Oh, for the love of Phoenix! What's next? Beak rot?

Luger

In the interest of your campaign, Brutus, I nominate Ursa, the Kermode bear.

Ursa

Say what?!

Brutus

Hmmm... why not?

Orestes

Father, what will become of Shade and Marina when you take charge of them?

Brutus

Punishment. To the full extent of the law.

Orestes

Without a trial?