Quotes from David Eddings

you wouldn't really expect a girl to get married without her mother in attendance, would you?

There was an almost musical flow to his illiterate speech, a kind of warm inclusiveness that paid no attention to any kind of social distinctions, and a shrewd, even penetrating, assessment of the chaos around him.

I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana's country were about as big as a tree could get," he said, "but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon's tummy when she goes by.

What you have to decide is whether you should do something, not whether you can do it.

There's a whole catalogue of nasty little emotions curdling in the human spirit, and anything the least bit out of the ordinary raises the possibility of retribution.

Love, My Goddess loves us all, and she gave up Bhelliom willingly out of that love. Bhelliom can't begin to understand love. In the end that may be our only defense against it.

Wise are you, indeed," the fox said, "to know what is not possible before you have made the attempt.

A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.

doesn't make any sense," he said. It was all he could do, however, to keep from throwing the dreadful sheet into

Bheid and Leitha, but he didn't say anything.

Beldin sighed. Since you're going to be such a spoilsport for this, Pol, I found a group of sheephenders below the snow line. Shepherds, uncle, she corrected. It means the same thing. If you really look at it, it's even the same word, Shepherd sounds nicer. Nicer. He snorted. Sheep are stupid, they smell bad, and they taste worse. Anybody who spends his life tending them is either defective or degenerate.

These outlanders are peculiar, aren't they? Longbow smiled faintly. They seem to think that we're the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I'm not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.

Everyone's lonely, dear," she explained, drawing him close to her. "We touch other people only briefly, then we're alone again. You'll get used to it in time.

By ostentation and propinquity to the throne, small men are able to avoid facing their own inadequacy.

Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again.

We was doing a lot of what our officers called "maneuvering"—which is officer talk for running

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

Is it? If somebody forces you to do something and there's no possible way to avoid it, is it really sin?

As he grew, the other children grew as well—all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig

If you don't have calluses on your soul, writing isn't for you. Take up knitting instead.

But in time the night, as all nights must, came to an end, and the morning dawned clear and bright.

Anyway, Arianna and I left the castle very late one evening. I knew the knight on guard at the drawbridge so I hit hit him over the head because I didn't want to hurt him. Garion blinked. I knew he'd be honor-bound to try to stop us, Lelldorin explained. I didn't want to have to kill him, so I hit him over the head. I suppose that makes sense, Garion said dubiously. Arianna's almost positive he won't die. DIE? I hit him just a little too hard, I think.

Policemen seem to worry about unexplained bodies. It upsets their sense of neatness.

Let Aloria rejoice!" Belgarath called out in a voice like thunder, "for the Rivan King has returned! All hail Belgarion, King of Riva and Overlord of the West!