Quotes from Nancy Farmer

You'd better tell me about that lie, Giles, said the old man, massaging his forehead. From all the sin you keep going on about, I'm sure it's going to be spectacular.

That was Bold Heart? cried the shield maiden. That stupid bird told me he was the Bard, but I assumed he was lying. So many birds do. You can understand birds? said Pega… What's that one saying?... Thorgil listened. He's saying, 'I'm itchy. I'm itchy. I'm itchy.' And that one's saying, 'So am I. So am I. So am I.' The one on the beech tree is singing, 'Bird lice, bird lice, we've all got bird lice!' Knowing does kind of take the fun out of it, decided Pega.

I remember you, the mond said. And you, spawn of Satan. He glowered at Thorgil. Do you recognize him? asked Jack. Thorgil shrugged. We pillage so many monasteries.

Thy mother honored us. We do not forget. - The yarthkin, to Thorgil

He made stew that not only tasted wonderful , but smelled good enough to raise the dead .

If you don't fix wrongs in time , they'll never go away !

Matt had to swallow hard to keep tears from forming. Fidelito had called him brother!

Do your zombies eat brains? Are they horrible and scary? They're only sad.

People from Durango are called alacranes — scorpions — because there are so many of the scurrying around.

Even angry words were better than silence.

The brain is shaped by the experiences of the body, and the body is shaped by the brain. Changing one part results in lethal confusion for the other.

He knows more about science than we do, and he's a hundred years in the past. He says we depend too much on machines. All we know how to do is press buttons, but he knows how the buttons work.

I remember too much. But don't worry, Don Sombra. People like me have an infinite ability to forgive themselves.

The secret of successful education is finding out how a particular person learns.

Matt was strapped to a bed in a room full of alarming machinery.

At one point Willum and two strange doctors appeared and proceeded to poke Matt's stomach and take his blood. They untied him so he could pee into a bottle

Sit down, Mi Vida," said El Patrón, indicating a chair by the table. "As I remember, you like cookies.

Schlaup nodded to show that he understood. Trolls burn villages too, he said. It's a favourite pastime with bullies all over the world, said the Bard.

Celia said nothing. She might have been carved out of stone.

Matt heard a dove calling from the roof of the hospital. No hope, it said. No hope. No hope.

You carry the blood of the horse lords, the Bard said... Your mother must have been a descendant of King Hengist, who was said to take the form of a horse when he went into battle. ... So I could be royal, said the shield maiden. Or part horse, Jack added. She danced the stallion sideways, making him jump out of the way.

I am meant to have justice!

tie it up." He called me a clone, Matt thought. He called me an "it.

It is our fate, Thorgil said. In the spring look for us again, or if you don't find us, we'll meet in Valhalla. She looked away. Jack knew she had no real hope, or desire, now to go to Valhalla. ... Jack leaned over and took her hand. You are Jill Allyson's Daughter, he said, using the name Thorgil's dead mother had given her at birth. You are not meant for Ragnarok.