Lloyd Alexander Quotes

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest.

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

Find what you want. I will find you.

Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.

No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it.

How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain.

If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.

Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim!" ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr

Behind one truth there is always yet another.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

I loved all the world's mythologies.

Ever since human beings learned to talk to each other, we've been fascinated with storytelling of every kind. Blessed (or cursed) with insatiable curiosity, we have to know what happens next.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

What seems to be love beyond any question is usually a simple case of indigestion.