History Quotes / Digger

'''Ed''': Some, yes, very much badness, very smart, bad person. Some not, just...big thing, scary thing, fire burn, but not being bad, just being fire.

->"I'm half God, Burrower, not half a geologist."

->"Neither Jhalm nor I wish to have a conversation that ends with "Because I'm a God and I say so." Such things are awkward, and degrade us both."

->"Of course It remembers! It remembers the rabbit It ate yesterday too, but rabbit still gone. Memory not Life. "

->"Liver is where feelings come from, Mousie not know this?"

->'''Ed''': "Demon is big thing, all thing, like wind, but is person, like Digger-mousie. Like is being storm demon, sick demon, fire demon, yes? Is person, but is also all thing, fire person, storm person. You know?"\\
'''Digger''': Okay, I sort of understand. Are they bad?"\\
'''Ed''': "Some, yes, very much badness, very smart, bad person. Some not, just...big thing, scary thing, fire burn, but not being bad, just being fire."

->"But Sweetgrass voice lies. Sweetgrass voice is Demon. Big Demon, is all lies and hate and smoke underground."

"Other than the time I was a small stone named Edward for some time, I got off lightly."

"That …Rock… looks nothing like a Bunny. Neither does that one! What’re the odds?"

"Dip me in chalk and call me a limestone conglomerate!"

"Generally, you just turn glowy or explode or go invisible for a week or two."

"Inasvisable?! It's bloody '''irresponsible''', is what it is!"

"And anyways, “Can’t carve a tunnel with tears,” as my grandmother used to say."

"This isn't bad. Nice forest. Good soil. Quality glacial remnant boulders."

"I'm a wombat not a lungfish."

"Well...I suppose no one was ever killed by a cave painting. Except great-aunt Ruby that time and everyone said that was a fluke."

"We swing pickaxes for twelve hours ''a day''. We're like ''biceps with feet''."

“What in the name of the dirt under the claws of the Mother of all wombats”

“I am '''UNCLEEEAN!'''”

"Just one question for you first: What the heck do you eat? And as a friendly advice, don't say "wombats"."

"The thing is I'm a wombat. And no self-respecting wombat has anything to do with magic. It's dangerous but mostly it's just bad taste."

"REMEBER TUNNEL SEVENTEEEEEEEEEEEEN!"

"I'm being attacked--or possibly being romanced--by an angry squash"

"Wombat ethics are pretty straightforward, and were not meant for situations this complicated unless geology is involved."

"Okay. Morality in a nutshell. Don't hurt people if you can avoid it. Don't steal stuff unless you're starving or it's really, really important. Work hard. Pay your bills. Try to help others. Always double check your math if there are explosives involved. If you screwed up, you need to see it gets fixed. And don't eat anything that talks. If it doesn't fall under one of those categories, just do the best you can."

"Now, at this point, I should probably tell you about some buried trauma of mine so that you'll be willing to open up to me and tell me whatever. But frankly, i don't have any buried traumas or dark secrets or anything. Well, I'm scared of ducks, but it's really not the same thing."

'''Digger''':"Do humans ever have baby humans that get... lost? Go missing? and then they're raised by moles?"\\
'''Murai''':"Wolves are more traditional with us."

'''Digger''':"I've mentioned that I'm hervibore, right?"\\
'''Grim Eyes''':"This is no time for weird Earth-Rat hang-ups."\\
'''Digger''':"It's not a hang-up! My digestion is just hooked up differently!"

"See? You're not as screwed up as you thought. Sometimes the craziness genuinely is outside your head."

"In the seven hundred years that I have been a temple statue, I have never heard someone utter the words "A god" in the same tone that one might describe, oh...foot fungus."

'''Digger''':“You’re a lifesaver.”\\
'''Statue''':“On occasion, yes.”

'''Digger''': "And if I catch them, I'm gonna shove my pickaxe so far up their-"\\
'''Statue''': "'''Compassion''', burrower!

'''Statue''':"I assure you, I am ''not'' hallucinatory."\\
'''Digger''':"Says the ''talking elephant statue''."

'''Statue''':"I am not so much a God as part of one--I am Lord Ganesh's hand, if you will, and Jhalm and the Veiled are his dogs."\\
'''Digger''':"Dogs have this legendary tendency to bite their master's hands, you know."\\
'''Statue''': "Indeed, Burrower, I am quite aware of that. But it is not the way of compassion, nor of prudence, to punish a faithful dog simply because you fear it ''may'' bite."

'''Digger''':"Wait, are you saying that the slug can do things you can't?"\\
'''Statue''': "Since I am capable of neither hermaphroditic reproduction, nor moving myself about by means of a slime trail, I daresay that slugs can do many things I cannot do. I confess, however, that I do not feel any particular grief over the lack."

"I'm half God, Burrower, not half a geologist."

"My point, Burrower, is not horticultural."


"Neither Jhalm nor I wish to have a conversation that ends with "Because I'm a God and I say so." Such things are awkward, and degrade us both."

"It has no name. [[FateWorseThanDeath Its name was eaten]]."

"Of course It remembers! It remembers the rabbit It ate yesterday too, but rabbit still gone. Memory not Life. "

"Liver is where feelings come from, Mousie not know this?"

'''Ed''': "Demon is big thing, all thing, like wind, but is person, like Digger-mousie. Like is being storm demon, sick demon, fire demon, yes? Is person, but is also all thing, fire person, storm person. You know?"\\

"But Sweetgrass voice lies. Sweetgrass voice is Demon. Big Demon, is all lies and hate and smoke underground."

"Gods is being like demons--is big thing, not safe"

"It was told to die, leave no name, no memory, no bones where real people might eat them. But It did not die. It has no name. But it will paint. After It is bones. After all real people are bones, after all names are eaten, someone will find pictures, maybe will not matter then that It doesn't have a name. Someone will remember pictures."

'''Ed''':"Evil is having reason, always, many and many. If hunter beats mate, has reason, always. Mate is lazy, burning food, is stupid, is speaking on and on. Is always being a reason."\\
'''Digger''':"But Ed, Those aren't good reasons!"\\
'''Ed''':"No, but evil is still being--is having reason--being reasonable! Mousie understands? Is always being reason. Is punishing world for not being..like in head. Is always reason. World should be different, ir reason. Is only good is not having reason. Little one hugs, not reason. Digger-mousie is giving name to nameless, say "Ed", no reason. Skin-painter paints skin of child, no reason. Just is."

"Skin-painter is fool."

'''Shadowchild''':"What's a pervert?"\\
'''Digger''':"Tell you later."\\
'''Shadowchild''':"Am I a-?"\\
'''Digger''':"NO!"

'''Digger''':"That was YOU, wasn't it?"\\
'''Shadowchild''':"What was me?"\\
'''Digger''':"That fifty-foot tall shadow-demon-thingy was you!"\\
'''Shadowchild''':"Oh yeah. That was me. Why? can't you do that?"


'''Digger''':"Well, that was an experience."\\
'''Shadowchild''':"Really?"\\
'''Digger''':"Yeah."\\
'''Shadowchild''':"Am I an experience?"\\
'''Digger''':"You have no idea."

'''Shadowchild''':"How are you doing?"\\
'''Digger''':"Fine, Fine. Other than the '''GREAT BLOODY HUNK OF WOOD IN MY SHOULDER'''. Never better."\\
'''Shadowchild''':"Can't you just thin out around it?"\\
'''Digger''':"Uh...No. Wombat density is sort of--OW!--constant."\\
'''Shadowchild''':"That must be inconvenient."\\
'''Digger''':"Yes. Yes it is."

'''Shadowchild''':"So are they evil?"\\
'''Digger''':"Nah, I think they're just weird. You gotta understand, good and evil's kinda...squishy at the edges."

"But what is an evil? Is it like water or like hedgehog or night or lumpy? What does it look like? How do i know?"

'''Murai''':"I thought you were in my head!"\\

'''Shadowchild''': "No... I could get in your head if you want, but it looks kind of crowded. I'm amazed there's room for you in there."

'''Shadowchild''':"Am I a hallucination?"\\
'''Digger''':"It'd make life easier, but no."

"I ate a sock!"

"The eaten?...you spoke to the eaten?! You were its guest?!...you...you...'''PERVERT!'''"

'''Grim Eyes''':"You brroke [[DoubleEntendre my mother's spearrr]]!"\\
'''Digger''':"Look, if you're expecting me to apologize for damaging a family heirloom, let me just point out that you were trying to skewer me with it."

"A ''friend'' might put a spear in your heart, but only an ''enemy'' will tell you it's for your own good."

"The leaves are prophetic, not an encyclopedia"

"One minute we're oozing along, not a care in the world, and the next, every time you cross a leaf, it's telling you the future. It's hard when you've got a brain the size of a ''pin head'', believe me."

'''Oracular Slug''':"Lady, if i was gonna make up a story about how i bacame an oracle, it would be a lot more glamorous."\\
'''Digger''':"Well, i suppose there's no arguing with that logic."

"Look buddy, they don't say "continued on the next leaf!" the leaf said "Bones of the sea", and that's what i told you. Don't salt the messenger."

"Black Mother, pass us by, turn your head away from us, we are not here,''we are not here'', pass us by..."

"The Veiled serve the Gods, Honored Digger. Comparative mythology and hand-to-hand combat are our specialties."

"It may sound strange, Honored Digger, but I do not believe they are malicious. I do not doubt they would skin us, but they do not mean any harm by it."

'''Murai''':"We are gazing upon what may be one of the most horrorific divine tragedies of our age, and all you can say is "weird"?"\\
'''Digger''':"Really weird?"

"Only the very wise or the very foolish speak willingly with the divine."

"Go on. They won't eat you unless you do something stupid."

'''Boneclaw mother''':"Shadebones here has this one nephew, and Hare's Ghost, if I were thirty years younger..."\\
'''Shadebones''':"You're blind. You can't even see him."\\
'''Boneclaw mother''':"He smells adorable."\\
'''Shadebones''':"You're a [[DirtyOldWoman vile old woman]]."

"I'm not senile. I just talk to myself because the rest of you don't provide adequate conversation."

"May the Mother of Earthquakes walk with you, but not too closely"

'''Digger''':"Uh...No. Wombat density is sort of--OW!--constant."

"It has no name. Its name was eaten."

'''Grim Eyes''':"You brroke my mother's spearrr!"\\

'''Shadebones''':"You're a vile old woman."

'''Shadowchild''':"Am I an experience?"

'''Digger''':"But Ed, Those aren't good reasons!"
'''Ed''':"No, but evil is still being--is having reason--being reasonable! Mousie understands? Is always being reason. Is punishing world for not being..like in head. Is always reason. World should be different, ir reason. Is only good is not having reason. Little one hugs, not reason. Digger-mousie is giving name to nameless, say "Ed", no reason. Skin-painter paints skin of child, no reason. Just is."\\

"I'm half God, burrower, not half a geologist."

'''Ed''': "Demon is big thing, all thing, like wind, but is person, like Digger-ousie. Like is being storm demon, sick demon, fire demon, yes? Is person, but is also all thing, fire person, storm person. You know?"\\

'''Digger''':"You have no idea."\\

!!'''Hag'''

'''Hag''':"But, don't you (wombats) have old women who run things?"\\
'''Digger''':"Yeah. We call them Senior Engineers, men too."

'''Digger''':"Says the ''talking elephant statue''."

"And anyways, “Can’t carve a tunnel with tears,” asmy grandmother used to say."

-->'''Digger''':"Says the ''talking elephant statue''."

-"Other than the time I was a small stone named Edward for some time, I got off lightly."-

-"That …Rock… looks nothing like a Bunny. Neither does that one! What’re the odds?"-

-"Dip me in chalk and call me a limestone conglomerate!"-

-"Generally, you just turn glowy or explode or go invisible for a week or two."-

-"Inasvisable?! It's bloody '''irresponsible''', is what it is!"-

-"And anyways, “Can’t carve a tunnel with tears,” asmy grandmother used to say."-

-"In the seven hundred years that I have been a temple statue, I have never heard someone utter the words "A god" in the same tone that one might describe, oh...foot fungus."-

-'''Digger''':“You’re a lifesaver.”\\
'''Statue''':“On occasion, yes.”-

-'''Digger''': "And if I catch them, I'm gonna shove my pickaxe so far up their-"\\
'''Statue''': "'''Compassion''', burrower!-

-'''Statue''':"I assure you, I am ''not'' hallucinatory."\\
-->'''Digger''':"Says the ''talking elephant statue''."-

@@"Other than the time I was a small stone named Edward for some time, I got off lightly."

"That …Rock… looks nothing like a Bunny. Neither does that one! What’re the odds?"

"Dip me in chalk and call me a limestone conglomerate!"

"Generally, you just turn glowy or explode or go invisible for a week or two."

"Inasvisable?! It's bloody '''irresponsible''', is what it is!"

"And anyways, “Can’t carve a tunnel with tears,” asmy grandmother used to say."@@

"In the seven hundred years that I have been a temple statue, I have never heard someone utter the words "A god" in the same tone that one might describe, oh...foot fungus."

'''Digger''':“You’re a lifesaver.”\\
'''Statue''':“On occasion, yes.”

'''Digger''': "And if I catch them, I'm gonna shove my pickaxe so far up their-"\\
'''Statue''': "'''Compassion''', burrower!

'''Statue''':"I assure you, I am ''not'' hallucinatory."\\
-->'''Digger''':"Says the ''talking elephant statue''."

--"Other than the time I was a small stone named Edward for some time, I got off lightly."

"And anyways, “Can’t carve a tunnel with tears,” asmy grandmother used to say."

--"In the seven hundred years that I have been a temple statue, I have never heard someone utter the words "A god" in the same tone that one might describe, oh...foot fungus."

-->"That …Rock… looks nothing like a Bunny. Neither does that one! What’re the odds?"

-->"Dip me in chalk and call me a limestone conglomerate!"

-->"Generally, you just turn glowy or explode or go invisible for a week or two."

-->"Inasvisable?! It's bloody '''irresponsible''', is what it is!"

-->"And anyways, “Can’t carve a tunnel with tears,” asmy grandmother used to say."

-->"In the seven hundred years that I have been a temple statue, I have never heard someone utter the words "A god" in the same tone that one might describe, oh...foot fungus."

-->'''Digger''':“You’re a lifesaver.”
-->'''Statue''':“On occasion, yes.”

-->'''Digger''': "And if I catch them, I'm gonna shove my pickaxe so far up their-"
-->'''Statue''': "'''Compassion''', burrower!

-->'''Statue''':"I assure you, I am ''not'' hallucinatory."
-->-->'''Digger''':"Says the ''talking elephant statue''."

-->"Other than the time I was a small stone named Edward for some time, I got off lightly."

"Other than the time I was a small stone named Edward for some time, I got off lightly."

"That …Rock… looks nothing like a Bunny. Neither does that one! What’re the odds?"

"Dip me in chalk and call me a limestone conglomerate!"

"Generally, you just turn glowy or explode or go invisible for a week or two."

"Inasvisable?! It's bloody '''irresponsible''', is what it is!"

"And anyways, “Can’t carve a tunnel with tears,” asmy grandmother used to say."

"In the seven hundred years that I have been a temple statue, I have never heard someone utter the words "A god" in the same tone that one might describe, oh...foot fungus."

'''Digger''':“You’re a lifesaver.”
'''Statue''':“On occasion, yes.”

'''Digger''': "And if I catch them, I'm gonna shove my pickaxe so far up their-"
'''Statue''': "'''Compassion''', burrower!

'''Statue''':"I assure you, I am ''not'' hallucinatory."
-->'''Digger''':"Says the ''talking elephant statue''."

-->'''Statue''':“On occasion, yes.”

-->'''Statue''': "'''Compassion''', burrower!

'''Statue''':“On occasion, yes.”

'''Statue''': "'''Compassion''', burrower!

'''Digger''':"Says the ''talking elephant statue''."

'''Digger''':

'''Statue of Ganesh''':

'''Digger:'''

Digger:

Statue of Ganesh:

Digger:“You’re a lifesaver.”
Statue:“On occasion, yes.”

Digger: "And if I catch them, I'm gonna shove my pickaxe so far up their-"
Statue: "'''Compassion''', burrower!

Statue:"I assure you, I am ''not'' hallucinatory."

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