"For once, I give you permission to go to Kameno. Go to that woman you call aunt. Tell Muthoni to come back. If she ag…"

"That teacher is good. He beats them hard.”"

"A savior had come. He had opened the eyes of the people. He had awakened the sleeping lions. They would now roar, roa…"

"Do not be led by a youth. Did the tail ever lead the head, the child the father or the cubs the lion?""

"In the past few years things were changing; the pattern of seasons was broken. It no longer rained regularly. The sun…"

"There were rumours that a Government Post would soon be built at Makuyu and that the hills would be ruled from there.…"

"He saw only schools, schools everywhere and the thirst that had burned the throats of so many children who had looked…"

"What had brought all this trouble? Waiyaki blamed himself.""

"The land was now silent. The two ridges lay side by side, hidden in the darkness. And the Honia river went on flowing…"

"Honia was the soul of Kameno and Makuyu. It joined them. And men, cattle, wild beasts and trees, were all united by t…"