Goth quotes from Silverwing

Goth

[to Shade] A jungle is an explosion of color. Born in the heat and the sun, we live as we choose in our jungle, with the warmth on our wings and our bellies never empty. We eat only the most succulent of small birds, the tastiest of lizards and other small animals.

Goth

[to Throbb] If you were not my brother in-law, I would have eaten you a week ago. Then, at least one of us would have enough energy to make it back to our beloved jungle.

Goth

[after eating the sleep-inducing leaves] There, I have honoured your custom.

Goth

[to the banded bats] Don't worry, little ones. We are with... the band.

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!

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.

Marina

How did you end up so far from home?

Goth

The royal guard was not acting with its ears wide open. The humans captured us, banded us and brought us here to be imprisoned.

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.

Throbb

I am so hungry I could eat a moth... Maybe two moths!

Goth

That is so sad, especially since we will soon be dining at the Silverwing buffet!

Throbb

Buffet? As in dining without limits? Excellent!

Throbb

Goth! I am freezing! I want to go back to the jungle. I miss the hot sun, the hunting and all my servant bats waiting on me claw and wing.

Goth

Patience, Throbb. Two small bats do not a buffet make.

Shade

I don't trust you.

Goth

[gasps] You insult my honour.

Goth

I am as Zotz made me!

Shade

Yeah, evil.

Goth

POWERFUL!!!

[to Goth] Never have I seen a bat so... disobedient... so disloyal... so deceitful... so...

Marina

Naughty.

Yes... naughty. Say it... "I am a naughty bat".

Goth

...I am... a naughty bat.

Again! And again! But with more feeling! NOW!! And don't stop until I SAY SO!!!

Goth

Perhaps this is why almighty Zotz has brought us here...to teach these weaklings the natural order of things.

Throbb

I say we order them for lunch!