Lloyd Alexander Quotes

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

~ Lloyd Alexander

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

~ Lloyd Alexander

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

~ Lloyd Alexander

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

~ Lloyd Alexander

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

~ Lloyd Alexander

The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.

~ Lloyd Alexander

But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.

~ Lloyd Alexander

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

~ Lloyd Alexander

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

~ Lloyd Alexander

My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands.

~ Lloyd Alexander

Until the thirst for power parched his throat, he was a fearless and noble lord.

~ Lloyd Alexander

Gwydion stood as a wolf at bay, his green eyes glittering, his teeth bared.

~ Lloyd Alexander

I saw myself.... In the time I watched, I saw strength—and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly, much. Of intentions, many good ones; but many more left undone. In this, alas, I saw myself a man like any other. But this, too, I saw.... Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.

~ Lloyd Alexander

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

~ Lloyd Alexander