Godhanger Quotes

“My friends, may good fortune guide you through the day to come, whether you go to your rest or start about your business. Young or old, swift or slow, strong or weak, hunter or hunted, may you fare well until we meet once more.”
― Dick King-Smith, Godhanger

“Sorry, moth,' he said. 'I'm afraid I've rather spoiled your night out. Presumably I've made some other moth a widow, or a widower—I've no idea what sex you are... were, I mean. But I didn't do you in with malice aforethought, old moth, take my word for it. I have no grudge against you, old moth, I do assure you. On the contrary, what I feel for you is love, the love of a tender morsel of moth-meat. I am a great lover of tender morsels, of vole-meat and mouse-meat, of the flesh of little birds and the innards of beetles, and of bite-sized bits of the wriggling worm. All must die to keep Eustace in good nick. And lastly I console you, my lepidopterous friend, with the thought that some day or night Eustace will drop off his perch and be loved in his turn, by the ants and the maggots.”
― Dick King-Smith, Godhanger

“Anger may be healthy, cleansing, a relief to the spirit at certain times, just as a violent thunderstorm clears the air and cools the overheated land.”
― Dick King-Smith, Godhanger