Kaa: Are you afraid of me?Mowgli: No...Kaa: Sometimes fear is the only intelligent response, don't you think?
Akela: When you were a cub, I looked you in the eye and saw no fear. I believed that one day you would bring peace to the jungle. But you have become a man now.Mowgli: I'm not a man! But neither am I a wolf.
I think we can all agree, Mowgli, that you are something the jungle has never seen before.
Kaa: The whole jungle has been watching you, man-cub.Mowgli: Why?Kaa: Even you must know you are unusual. Not quite a wolf, not quite a man, or neither, or both...