Quotes from John Flanagan

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you've never thought of everything.

It's a lot easier to heal an injured body than a damaged soul.

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

Will: I'm looking for fighting men. I plan to sack a castle, and I hear you people are rather good at that.

One man may be deceit. Two can be conspiracy. Three is the number I trust.

It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.

My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read."Abraham Linclion

Think of a positive outcome, and you will achieve it. Allow doubt to enter your mind, and the doubt will become self-fulfilling.

Then her mother – as skilled in the art of ambush as most mothers are – startled her with her furious, echoing roar.

Yet each country had items that the other needed. The Arridi had reserves of red gold and iron in their deserts that the Toscans required to finance and equip their large armies. Even more important, Toscans had become inordinately fond of kafay, the rich coffee grown by the Arridi.

No," Hal said. "The sea is moving constantly and you have to make little adjustments to keep it going smoothly. You can't take it for granted." "Just like a friendship," she said smiling. And Hal nodded. "Maybe that's why the word ends in ship," he said.

Neither boy ever intended to speak about the events at the cliff that day. But of course their mothers eventually worked the truth out of them. Mothers always do.

Now I know that if you wait till you think you are ready, you'll wait all your life.

Does your friend ever say anything?' the fat man asked. Aloom set down the piece of bread he had just rolled round several chunks of meat and gave an exasperated sigh. 'I heard him say oops! once, when he cut the ears off someone who was asking too many questions.

A foolish way to get around." Hal smiled. "If the gods had meant us to ride horses, they never would have given us ships.

Face your fears, Halt had always thought him, and more often than not they fade like mist in the sunshine

This Lady Pauline," he began, "she must be a fearful person. She sounds like a terrible sorceress." His face was deadpan, but Will sensed the underlying amusement and replied in kind. "She's very slim and beautiful. But she has amazing power. Some time ago, she persuaded Halt to have a haircut for their wedding." Malcolm, who had noticed Halt's decidedly slapdash hair styling, raised his eyebrows. "A sorceress indeed.

Of course you love her!" he'd replied. "She's been your best friend since you both could walk, and now she's grown up to be beautiful, talented, intelligent and witty. What's not to love about all that?

What is this?" he asked. "Are you all conspiring against me? Even my horse?" It was the last three words that made Will smile. "We figured you mightn't listen to a healer, a Ranger, or a knight of the realm, "he said. "But if your horse agreed with them, you'd have no choice but to pay attention.

I'm too set in my ways to start doing the right thing," he complained. "You're a bad influence, Horace.

Mind you, Princess Cassandra used to stalk us when she sneaked out of the castle as a girl.

I'm sure we're all nervous," Alyss said. She directed one of her rare smiles at Will. "We'd be stupid not to be." "Well, I'm not!" Horace said, then reddened as Alyss raised one eyebrow and Jenny giggled.

Halt and Gilan looked at him, then looked at each other, and said in chorus: "You're an apprentice. You're not ready to think." Then