He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details tha...
Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
She was the most confusing person he had ever met
No, no, said Taran slowly, It would be folly to think of attacking them. He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. The bards would sing of us, he admitted, but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.
It may be, replied Coll, smiling, we know least what we treasure most. But we will have more than enough to keep us busy when you come back, and you will learn, my boy, there is nothing like work to p...
Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
Good-bye, good-bye,' muttered Gwystyl. 'I hate to see you waste your time, not to mention your lives. But that's the way of it, I suppose. Here today, gone tomorrow, and what's anyone to do about it?...
Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?'Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheer...
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.
If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
I fear I our good dwarf has lost his taste for adventure. I managed to get word to him, thinking he might come along with me for the sport of it. He sent back a message. All it said was 'Humph!
Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance...
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 of...
The tasks you set yourself are cruelly difficult. There is no certainty you will accomplish even one, and much risk you will fail in all of them. In either case, your efforts may well go unrewarded, u...
Servants ran to wake the young king, Tamar, already awake and watching from his balcony. Curious, naturally. Not altogether pleased. No more than anyone would be, jolted out of a sound sleep by unexpe...
Perhaps,' Taran said quietly, watching the moon-white riverbank slip past them, 'perhaps you have the truth of it. At first I felt as you did. Then I remember thinking of Eilonwy, only of her; and the...
It would be a shame if you were killed. I should be very sorry. I know I wouldn't like it to happen to me.