| A | B |
|---|
| Katrina | "You were one day old, not yet named your one-syllable infant name-" page 4 |
| Katrina | "Your father had been taken by beasts." page 6 |
| Katrina | "Still they made me promise that you would not become a burden" page 6 |
| Matt | "Your cott is horrid burnt," page 9 |
| Matt | "I tried to save things but it's mostly all burnt." page 9 |
| Vandera | "Your space is gone. It's mine now. those saplings are mine." page 15 |
| Vandera | "I will take her to the Council of Guardians then" page 17 |
| Vandera | "I remember what it was like...to see your own blood pour on the ground." page 18 |
| Kira | "Please appoint a defender," page 30 |
| Jamison | "I was with the hunting party that day," he said. "I saw him taken." page 35 |
| Jamison | "As defender, I am going to concede some of these points." page 36 |
| Matt | "Later we be starting your cott if you want." page 39 |
| Katrina | "She has a skill far greater than mine." page 42 |
| chief guardian | "The orphan girl Kira will stay. She will have a new role." page 48 |
| Vandera | "You will fail. Then they will kill you." page 49 |
| Matt | "Me and Branch, we don't go into the room because of the wee buggies." page 60 |
| Thomas | "not long after, my parents were both killed during a storm." page 70 |
| Matt | "I only look wee." page 77 |
| Annabella | "You liken your mum," page 80 |
| Annabella | "You must come here each day. Your must learn all the plants." page 81 |
| Thomas | "I could write the names for you, Kira," page 88 |
| Kira | "I'll need a place to grow a color garden," page 91 |
| Thomas | "And there's a large place at the top that has never been carved. Eventually I'll be doing that..." page 92 |
| Thomas | "They're only tykes. There are too many of them anyway." page 99 |
| Matt | "Looky here! I've got me a manly pelt!" page 101 |
| Matt | "You're drownding me!" page 103 |
| Matt | "You would've drownded me but I fought so fierce." page 103 |
| Annabella | "There be no beasts," page 110 |
| Jamison | "After this year's Gathering... you'll have this entire section to work on for years to come." page 110 |
| Jo | "Please, I want me mum," page 136 |
| Jo | "They always be making me learn new ones." page 150 |
| Matt's brother | "He be getting you some blue!" page 165 |
| Jo | "I could thump with the hairbrush iffen I needed," page 168 |
| Jo | "And someday I sing it for you horrid loud." page 168 |
| Jamison | "You've done a fine job, Kira," page 169 |
| Kira | "I should have paid more attention to the Ruin Song each year," page 17 |
| Jamison | "Here lies the future...And now you will tell it to us, with your fingers and your threads," page 173 |
| Jamison | "We have waited a long time for you," page 173 |
| Jo | "I be giving them a little wavie," page 179 |
| Singer | "In the beginning..." page 181 |
| Matt | "I brung you a giftie," page 186 |
| Matt | "They was horrid surprised to see me come. But they give me plenty of food. Branchie too." page 188 |
| Matt | "It be the small giftie. But the big one be coming soon," page 189 |
| Christopher | "You were a wonderful guide. You brought me almost all the way." page 193 |
| Thomas | "I carved the Singer's staff while Kira did the Robe." page 196 |
| Christopher | "Kira...I'm your father." page 198 |
| Christopher | "There was no danger. I was an accomplished hunter." page 200 |
| Christopher | "My eyes were destroyed and I was almost delirious with pain." page 202 |
| Christopher | "But I have no wife, no child." page 205 |
| Christopher | "Jamison is the one who tried to kill me." page 208 |
| Matt | "His eyes be a very amazing blue," page 214 |
| chief guardian | "For the first time I present the Carver of the future." page 178 |
| chief guardian | "For the first time I present the Robe-threader, the designer of the future." page 179 |
