Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything stra

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

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 wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.

Meditation quiets conscious thought and the physical realm, making a doorway to spiritual awareness.

Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.

I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.

Reach for the stars.

You West Virginia girls are one tough breed," he said. You got that right," I told him.

We all have a blind spot and it's shaped exactly like us.

The greed for fruit misses the flower.

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.