Fiver Quotes in Watership Down (1978)

Bigwig: Hazel? It is Hazel, isn't it?

Hazel: It is.

Bigwig: What are you doing here?

Hazel: [Motioning to Fiver] We want to see the chief rabbit, Bigwig.

Bigwig: We? You mean he wants to see him too?

Hazel: Yes.

Fiver: I must.

Bigwig: What on earth for?

Fiver: Well, I...

Holly: Bigwig? What do they want?

Bigwig: They want to see the chief rabbit.

Holly: What for?

Fiver: Well, I...

Holly: Send them away.

Bigwig: I'll take care of it, Holly.

[Turns back to Hazel]

Hazel: Look, Bigwig, when have I EVER asked to see the chief rabbit?

Bigwig: [Thinks over, hesitating] All right, all right. Wait here.

[Goes into warren, speaks to Chief Rabbit for a moment, comes back up]

Bigwig: Come along then. Though I'll probably get my ears chewed off for this...

Fiver: Look. Look. That's the place for us. High, lonely hills, where the wind and the sound carry, and the ground's as dry as straw in a barn. That's where we ought to be. That's where we have to get to.

Fiver: [talking about Cowslip's warren] You pay for it! The food, the warren... but no one must ever ask where anyone was or speak of the wires! The whole place is snared! Everywhere, every day!

Blackberry: Men have always hated us.

Holly: No. They just destroyed the warren because we were in their way.

Fiver: They'll never rest until they've spoiled the earth.

Hazel: Where are you going?

Fiver: Away, to the hills.

Hazel: By yourself, alone? You'll die!

Fiver: You're closer to death than I am.

Blackberry: [returning after the disasterous raid on Nuthanger Farm] Fiver, there's been some trouble. Hazel's been shot.

Fiver: No.

Blackberry: The Black Rabbit serves Lord Frith, but he does no more than his appointed task.

Fiver: Hazel's not dead.

Fiver: [long pause after Violet has been carried off by an attacking hawk, then] Violet's gone.

Fiver: Hazel, look... the field... it's covered with blood!

Fiver: There's something very queer about the warren this evening...

Hazel: Is it dangerous?

Fiver: It's not exactly danger, it's... oh, I don't know. Something oppressive... like thunder.

Fiver: [in the grip of a vision] So cold... so very cold...