Quotes from Kathryn Lasky

Damn the MacHeaths for their jealousies, their mutilation of young pups, and their alliances with devil owls.

If fairness were the rule, the good would not die young, as Coryn, the king of the Great Tree, had.

Could he climb, using his talons and beak?

Gwynneth had gone to his forge and set

I'm naked under this dress. Naked as a jaybird, she said pointedly and looked at the matron. Oh, my! She'll have to be broken! Mrs. Phillips said and smiled. Well, dear, we're the rodeo capital of Kansas. Bronco busting is our specialite. She pronounced the word in a foreign sounding way.

Strong enough for any battlefield, any war, but tempered with compassion and wisdom so that he knows the richness of restraint, the fruitfulness of peace, and the grace of mercy.

Well, first murder, then shopping.

All for owls and owls for all!

The moment she entered she felt wrapped in a fragile golden light like a radiant mist that seemed to settle around her. What was it about the mews? she often wondered. It seemed to transform the simplest things, like stone and wood and the very air one breathed, into something different. When she crossed the threshold, she felt as if she had entered another world.

And all the owls of the great tree that night believed, as well. They believed that there were many kinds of truths, those of science that could be proven through the brain, and those of legends that could come true in the hearts and gizzards of all owls if they only believed.

Where there are legends, there can be hope. Where there are legends, there can be dreams of knightly owls, from a kingdom called Ga'Hoole, who will rise each night into the blackness and perform noble deeds. Owls who speak no words but true ones. Owls whose only purpose is to right all wrongs, to make strong the weak, mend the broken, vanquish the proud, and make powerless those who abuse the frail. With hearts sublime, they

and powerless and weak, an outcast. Glaux bless you for your belief in legends.

although boldness of action is always called for, it must be tempered by wisdom and restraint, and too often it is not.

was regaining his strength now on a fairly steady diet

Gylf, you can practice forever and still never fly if you do not really believe you can.

Moon Scalding

Zan and I have always believed that there is more goodness than evil in the world. But you know, you still got to work at it.

And yet he could not stop thinking of them. He did not want to stop thinking of them. He would never stop thinking of them.

Dream on, you addle-brained idiot bird.

In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition.

I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.

Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.

I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet.

I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.