Alanna: All I know is that I'm to jump when I'm told and I have no free time.

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different?

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

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

Excuse me, " she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.

We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

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?

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

We can't always win the game

First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you.

Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

Most of the time, our limitations are self-imposed.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

Sometimes when you smile, it's not because you're happy. It's because you're strong.

Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

When you're trying to love two, it sure ain't easy to do.