Quotes from John Flanagan

Temptation got too strong," Selethen told them as he came closer. "I decided to come with you.

We have a special air-cured ham that's made for us by

A god who brings you good and bad in equal amounts doesn't ask for much, " she said. "Maybe a prayer or two. Maybe the odd sacrifice of a beast. But a god who promises only good times?" She shook her head and made the warding sign against evil. "A god like that will always want something from you.

Sorry Ulf, maar ik moest je tegenhouden voordat je verder banjerde. Ik wil niet dat je allerlei sporen uitwist die hij daar achtergelaten kan hebben.' 'Als je maar weet dat ik niet banjer,' zei Ulf, een tikkeltje beledigd. 'Ik beweeg me heel lichtvoetig voort.' 'Neem me niet kwalijk,' zei Lydia. 'Ik bedoelde natuurlijk te zeggen dat ik je moest tegenhouden voordat je daar heel lichtvoetig allerlei sporen zou uitwissen.

Ik ben blij dat de Wolfswind nog in de scheepswerf ligt,' zei hij uiteindelijk. 'Hij vaart weer recht op mijn vaste ligplaats af.

Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck." "Very wise

One day your knees will creak," he told them. Stig looked up at him and rolled his eyes. "If I don't get drowned by my best friend in the meantime.

I want the word to go out that the strange ship with the red falcon ensign"—he gestured to Evanlyn's ensign, flying from the mast top—"is manned by dangerous, hairy maniacs with axes and is to be avoided at all costs.

Evanlyn opende haar mond om te schreeuwen... Vreemd, dacht ze, dat ze haar helemaal hierheen hadden gebracht, haar de nacht aan een boom hadden vastgebonden, en haar nu zouden doden. Wat een zinloze manier om dood te gaan.

Maddie trok een wenkbrauw op, een uitdrukking die ze van hem had overgenomen en die hij weer van Halt had.

I looked at his teeth. That's what people seem to do when they look at animals. They look at their teeth.

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

It was made from bark slabs and wattle and daub

He imagined many years must have passed since a jongleur had chosen to pinch that ample backside.

Arnaut hield meer van de colleges van Heer Roderick: die waren zwart-wit, duidelijk, geen probleem wat goed of slecht was, neem je zwaard en hak erop los.

The problem with castles, Halt thought as he continued upward, was that they were full of stairs. If someone could only design a castle that was all on one level, it would save a lot of effort.

Sounded like a sneeze to me. Could be the plague.

Alyss had kissed him good-bye and then whispered a few private words in his ear.

back on the other, pivoting the neat craft in her own length. Then both

That might be a bit of an exaggeration,' she said. 'I can really only knock the head off a gnat. We don't do eyeballs until fifth year.

O, ze zullen verslagen worden, wees maar niet bang. Het zal een heftige en bloederige strijd worden, maar de Temujai zullen zeker winnen. - Halt, over de Skandiërs

prison, he could still remember the pleasant green glades and thickly forested hills of his former fief. The streams filled with fish and the fields rich with crops and game. Gorlan had been a beautiful, living place. The Mountains of Rain and Night were dead and

The northmen seemed to have a love for setting big fires, whether they were burning down villages or just sitting around having a drink.

Give an enemy one chance to surrender. But one chance only. After that, take action.