The Black Gryphon

[Chapter One] p.22
Well, death is inevitable anyway, so dying for the right reason is...
Just as final.
Stupid gryphon.

[Chapter Two] p.43
A frowning Healer was a bad omen;

[Chapter Three] p.73, 78
But the onlt people who came near him were those he was supposed to be grateful to−how annoying!−

But he still wanted to bite−so hi did. The camp could find another pillow somewhere.

“I am only one sssstupid grrryphon, afterrr all.”
“True.” Urtho sighed again. “But you are a very special stupid gryphon;(...)”

[Chapter Four] p.96, 100, 123
the Black Gryphon was the Black Gryphon, and black he would remain.

“Not Gesten, he enjoys suffering. He enjoys letting you know he’s suffering even more,”

Skan’s cures for boredom are reading, sleeping, and teasing his friends, in that order.(...)”

[Chapter Five] p.132
Bad enough that as humans you are always in season−”
“And you are not?” Arubi rumbled from the background.
“What?” Skan asked. “Did I hear something?”
“No,” Arubi replied. “I am asleep. You heard nothing.”

“Well, greatest of the sky-warriors,” he said lightly, with a teasing glance to the side, “I think you won’t have any real need for us in the next few hours, so we’ll go tend to those with greater hurts and smaller egos.”

[Chapter Seven] p.183
Skan reminded absolutely motionless, except for the very end of his tail, which flopped and twitched like a fish on land. Like a cat, the end of his tail betrayed his mental state.

[Chapter Twelve] p.313
“Gesten, this used mope would like to know if you’re willing to help him look more like a gryphon.”

[Chapter Thirteen] p.325
they shared nothing except company.

[Chapter Fifteen] p.368
a neat and orderly living space is the sign of a dangerously sick mind,

But the youngster was ade of sterner stuff than most, and oviously was not going to be rattled simply by the stare of an unfriendly carnivore with a beak large and sharp enough to make short work of his torso.

[Chapter Sixteen] p.416
he could not have said truthfully that he had a “favorite” Clan, but of all of them, k’Leshya held the greatest number of his favorite Kaled’a’in.