I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

If I say you're a goatherd's son, you say, 'Yes, Lord Ralon.'" Alanna gasped with fury. "I'd as soon kiss a pig! Is that what you've been doing-kissing pigs? Or being kissed?

We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.

Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court." (Jon to Alanna)

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.