Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb- mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities as yet undiscovered. I hope not.
Lloyd AlexanderIf writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
Lloyd AlexanderIf I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
Lloyd AlexanderChild, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
Lloyd Alexander