Lloyd Alexander

"If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled."

"The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth a…"

"He’s as impartial as a herring’s backbone, for he favors neither side and is attached to both!"

"I have marched in many a battle host," Adaon answered quietly, "but I have also planted seeds and reaped the harvest with my own hands. And I have learned there is greater honor in a field well plowed…"

"Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much."

"“There is much to be known,” said Adaon, “and above all much to be loved, be it the turn of the seasons or the shape of a river pebble. Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure…"

"Why?" Dallben interrupted. "In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

"This much have I learned: A man’s life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning."