Quotes from John Flanagan

Vrienden zouden elkaar niet hoeven te bedanken,' zei hij. Maar Cassandra was het daar niet mee eens. Ze stond op en liep naar hem toe. 'Dat hoeven we ook niet,' zei ze. 'Maar dat willen we wel.' Ze legde haar handen op zijn schouders, boog zich voorover, maar keek toen eerst achterom naar Alyss. 'Mag ik?' 'Voor deze keer dan!' grijnsde Alyss en de prinses gaf Will een dikke pakkerd op beide wangen.

Who exactly is Gorlog, dear?" she asked. "He's a northern god. I borrowed him from the Skandians. He's very useful if you want to blaspheme without offending people.

Will nodded. "Good for him.

People will think what they want to," he said quietly. "Never take to much notice of it.

Koffie! Ik moet er niet aan denken, op dit uur van de dag!' mopperde Duncan. 'Dan komt er niets meer van slapen vannacht.' 'Gelukkig heb ik dat probleempje niet, majesteit!' antwoordde Will. En hij voegde er met een lachje aan toe: 'Maar ik heb dan ook een schoon geweten.' Evanlyn maakte een onbeleefd geluid. 'Ha, als er ooit een Grijze Jager is geweest met een schoon geweten, dan was jij het zeker niet, stiekemerd.

I said you were Sir Horace of the Order of the Oakleaf," Halt told him, then added uncertainly, "At least, I think that's what I told him. I may have said you were of the Order of the Oak Pancake.

The Stealer in the Night was Jory Ruhl.

Not intelligent. Intelligence. Although it does help if your intelligence force was also intelligent.

man who breaks his oath, who turns traitor once, can always do the same thing again.

nestled under the trees

A man who breaks his oath, who turns traitor once, can always do the same thing again.

Wat zou Alyss willen dat ik deed?'... Hij hoorde het haar bijna zeggen: 'Het zijn je vrienden.

Life was good, he thought. They had eaten well. They had a firm plan of action, and he had a traveling companion whom he could tease anytime he liked.

Gorlog?' vroeg Maddie. 'Wie is Gorlog?' 'Een Skandische halfgod, die ons in allerlei situaties van pas komt,' zei Will.

Maddie mompelde een niet erg damesachtige verwensing. 'Zo, dat verwacht je niet te horen uit de mond van een prinses,' merkte Will op. 'Waar heb je die uitdrukking in 's hemelsnaam geleerd?' 'Van mijn moeder,' antwoordde ze kortaf. Will knikte. 'Aha, natuurlijk. Vandaar.

Why not?" Then she thought further. "I wonder what Halt will say when we put it to him.

You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days.

Je hebt echt overal aan gedacht,' zei ze. Will keek op en schudde ontkennend zijn hoofd. 'Dat betwijfel ik,' zei hij ernstig. 'Hoe goed je ook alles plant, hoe goed je je voorbereidt - je hebt nooit aan alles gedacht.

It's war," he replied. "The trick is to know which risks to take.

Halt never ceased to be fascinated by the way women, young or old, big or small, could not resist the temptation to feed Horace.

Maybe they're napping," Horace suggested. Halt glanced sidelong at him. "Farmers don't nap," he said. "Knights nap." "That's where we get the expression 'a good knight's sleep,' " Will said, smiling at his own wit. Halt turned a baleful eye on him. "Horace is right. You're not funny. Come on.

That stairway would be a narrow spiral, set to the left-hand side and twisting the right as it ascended. In that way, a right-handed swordsman climbing the stairs would be at a disadvantage to a right-handed defender. An attacker would have to expose all of his body in order to use his sword, while the defender could strike with only his right side exposed. It was standard design for the castle tower.

True enough," Horace said. "Let's get on with it, Halt. I'm famished." "Are you ever not famished?" Halt asked, but Horace was already heading for the inn.

What I understand," he said, "is that there is very little about you that is excellent and that Aseikh is a term of honor. There's nothing honorable in a man who hides his face behind a blue woman's hanky.