Lloyd Alexander Quotes

I saw myself.... In the time I watched, I saw strength—and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly, much. Of intentions, many good ones; but many more left undone. In this, alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this, too, I saw.... Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.

The journey is the treasure.

A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.