Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.
Lloyd AlexanderAt the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
Lloyd AlexanderThe dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise โ unless she wished me to accompany her.
Lloyd AlexanderDo you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.
Lloyd Alexander