Great Owl: "Why have you come?"
Mrs. Brisby:"Please...forgive me for disturbing you, but my sons life is in great danger...(Great Owl eats moth) The plow has come early this year."
Great Owl: "Move your family."
Mrs. Brisby: "Yes...I could move...but Timothy has pneumonia. He can't even get out of bed."
Great Owl: "You must move your place where it'll be safe from the plow."
Mrs. Brisby: "Please, there must be another way."
Great Owl: "There is no 'other way'. I must bid you good evening, Mrs..."
Mrs. Brisby: "Mrs. Brisby."
Great Owl: "Brisby? Mrs. Jonathan Brisby?"
Mrs. Brisby: "Why, yes! He was my husband! But how do you know about him?"
Great Owl: "That is NOT important. I will say this—his name is not unknown in these woods."
Mrs. Brisby: "Please...I'll do anything to save Timmy. Anything."
Great Owl: "There is a way. Go to the Rats."
Mrs. Brisby: "But I don't know any rats."
Great Owl: "In the rose bush."
Mrs. Brisby: "Oh yes. Near the farm house."
Great Owl: "Go there. Ask for Nicodemus."
Mrs. Brisby: "Nicodemus? But how can they help?"
Great Owl: "They must move your house to the lee of the stone."
Mrs. Brisby: "No rat could move my house. It's..."
Great Owl: "They have ways."
Mrs. Brisby: "I don't understand. But I will do what you say."
Great Owl: "It is night. I must go. Remember—the lee of the stone."
—Mrs. Brisby's meeting with the Great Owl
"You can unlock any door if you only have the key."
— Mrs. Brisby (reading the inscription on the amulet.)
"Courage of the heart is very rare. The stone has a power when it's there."
— Nicodemus
