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

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.

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.

Only one kind of religion cannot give peace to everyone. Whatever ‘degree’ one is sitting at, that ‘degree’ of religion he requires.

I don’t care how smart you are. You’ll never understand how little you really know until you’ve had a woman.

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

I don't think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don't realize what a great place it is.

The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.