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“The sea looked as if it had been licked clean, blue and clear and smooth, and there were a few woolly little clouds in…

— Leonie Swann

“They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves.”

— Leonie Swann

“This God sounds rather suspicious to me," said Mopple.”

— Leonie Swann

“No, little one, George's ghost won't come back. Human beings don't have souls. No soul, no ghost. Simple." "How can you say that?" protested…

— Leonie Swann

“Do you think the Goblin King really did it?" asked Cordelia hesitantly. All the sheep knew she was talking about George's death. Mopple quickly…

— Leonie Swann

“Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was…

— Leonie Swann

“No sheep may leave the flock," he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again.”

— Leonie Swann

“Justice!” bleated Othello. “Justice!” bleated the other sheep. And so it was decided that George Glenn’s sheep themselves would solve the wicked murder of…

— Leonie Swann

“Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.”

— Leonie Swann

“Cordelia loved his explanations. She loved knowing words that belonged to things she'd never seen, even to things you couldn't see at all. She…

— Leonie Swann

“The group was led by a very thin man whom the sheep didn't know. They looked hard at him. The leader of the flock…

— Leonie Swann

“You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.”

— Leonie Swann