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

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

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 that are lacking.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.