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"By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!" "There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy. "Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can."
"...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness."
"The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time."
"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"
"I loved all the world's mythologies."
"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. On 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."
"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."
"Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost."
"King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath."
"At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope"
"If 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."
"After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college."
"A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much."
"My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author."
"When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States."
"Evil cannot be conquered by wishing."
"I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded."
"That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood."
"...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill."
"The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes. No foam-born Aphrodite, she vaguely resembles my old piano teacher, who was keen on metronomes."