And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.
Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.
Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.
A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again.- I'm not sure
We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes.
Your ma was a leech with bad teeth, she taunted. Onua laughed in spite of herself. Your da was a peahen. I know chickens with more brains than you!
You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel
You don't think history gets rewritten, sometimes?
Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?The Prince turned. Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'...
There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan, he told her softly. And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart.-George to Alanna
The sands drift always, yet the desert remains the same.
The Chamber is only a room, though a magical one, and you will enter it when the time comes. Duke Roger is only a man, for all he wields sorcery. He can be met and defeated. But you, my daughter - lea...
Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.
I don't have so many friends that I can afford to turn my back on any of them.
Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.
All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written in a book never could.
Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?
She rides as a man, goes unveiled as a man, fights as a man. Let her prove herself worthy as a man, worthy of her weapons and of our friendship.
Your life might be easier if you were. A fool for love is happier than a Dog with a heart that's all leather.
You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.