Leonie Swann Quotes

#1. They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves (p. 223).
Melmouth, of the George Flock in Three Bags Full

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#2. This God sounds rather suspicious to me, said Mopple.

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

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#4. 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 their shepherd.

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#5. You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.

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#6. A story always ends just when it comes to an end. Like a breath.

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

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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 is always important.

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