Quotes from Lloyd Alexander

True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have

Vi är varken onda eller goda. Vi är helt enkelt intresserade av saker precis som det de är.

Keep reading It's one of the most adventures that anyone can have

There is a part of us in everyone else.

I commend your patience," he said. "The black beast spurs Ellidyr cruelly." "I think he'll feel better once we find the cauldron," Taran said. "There will be glory enough for all to share." Adaon smiled gravely. "Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

There is much to be known," said Adaon, "and above all much to be loved, be it the turn of the seasons or the shape of a river pebble. Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

It is not given to men to know the ends of their journeys...It may be that you will never return to the places dearest to you. But how can that matter, if what you must do is here and now?

My knowledge of parental duties was slight—something to do with graham crackers and proper underclothing. But those duties certainly did not include dashing off to a country of furious Illyrians and, probably, bad drinking water.

When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, of honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.' 'If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,' Annlaw agreed. 'Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.

He is here now, Taran said quietly. He has long sought you and in ways even he himself did not know. Now that he has found you, can you not find your path back to him?

Is—is Achren your mother?" Taran gasped and drew back fearfully. "Certainly not!" cried the girl. "I am Eilonwy

I have studied the race of men, Medwyn continued. I have seen that alone you stand as weak reeds by a lake. You must learn to help yourselves, that is true; but you must also learn to help one another.

It is not given to men to know the ends of their journeys," Medwyn answered. "It may be that you will never return to the places dearest to you. But how can that matter, if what you must do is here and now?

I have the sword I fashioned,' Taran proudly cried, 'the cloak I wove, and the bowl I shaped. And the friendship of those in the fairest land of Prydain. No man can find greater treasure.

I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish to learn how to swim!

if you grow up with any kind of sense - which you sometimes make me doubt - you will very likely reach your own conclusions. They will probably be wrong. However, since they will be yours, you will feel a little more satisfied with them.

There are those who have labored all their lives to gain the gift, striving until the end only to find themselves mistaken; and those who had it born in them yet never knew; those who lost heart too soon; and those who should never have begun at all. "Count yourself lucky," the potter went on, "that you have understood this now and not spent your years in vain hope. This much have you learned, and no learning is wasted.

Of course not, agreed Orddu. We're neither good nor evil. We're simply interested in things as they are. And things as they are, at the moment, seem to be that you're caught by the Crochan.

Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them.

It was a sad tune," Eilonwy said. "But the odd thing about it is, you don't mind the sadness. It's like feeling better after you've had a good cry. It made me think of the sea again, though I haven't been there since I was a little girl.

See much, study much, suffer much.

What you call ancient custom is just a bad habit. Somebody did something stupid long ago and you've been doing it ever since. It doesn't make anything better. It only gets stupider and stupider.