Nina > Nina's Quotes

“She was not stunningly beautiful. She could be pretty when she felt like it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Westmark

“Since no one has mentioned it,' said Eilonwy, 'it seems I'm not being asked to come along. Very well, I shan't insist.'

'You, too, have gained wisdom, Princess,' said Dallben. 'Your days on Mona were not ill-spent.'

'Of course,' Eilonwy went on, 'after you leave, the thought may strike me that it's a pleasent day for a short ride to go picking wildflowers which might be hard to find, especially since it's almost winter. Not that I'd be following you, you understand. But I might, by accident, lose my way, and mistakenly happen to catch up with you. By then, it would be too late for me to come home, through no fault of my own.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The High King

“A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?"

"Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three

“Who but lovers dream alike?”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

“I think we should always remember that reading -- the experience of a book -- is a very private, very personal kind of thing. Sometimes the best response to such an experience is: silence.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“In an age that seems to be increasingly dehumanized, when people can be transformed into non-persons, and where a great deal of our adult art seems to diminish our lives rather than add to them, children's literature insists on the values of humanity and humaneness.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Is a man truly what he see himself to be?'

'Only if what he sees is true.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer

“I cannot forgive myself for what I did. It has long been one of my strictest principles not to interfere with the life of any individual, let alone attempt to shorten it. If an exception were to be made, Dr. Helvitius would surely qualify. It might be argued that, having neither scruples nor conscience, he had no claim upon the conscience of someone else—least of all, his intended victims. But that is a question to be resolved by a judgment higher than mine. In the event, my responsibility toward Vesper outweighed every other consideration.
I can state in all honesty: I meant only to wound him.
I cannot forgive myself—for missing the villain completely.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The El Dorado Adventure

“Like his fellow genius, Tolkien, C.S. Lewis has redefined the nature of fantasy, adding richness beauty, and dimension... In our times, every fantasy realm must be measured in comparison with Narnia.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Courage to win”
― Lois Walfrid Johnson

“If there is anything more heart-breaking than a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from hunger for the light. ========== Les Misérables (English language) (Hugo, Victor)”
― Anonymous

“one can no more pray too much than one can love too much;”
― Anonymous

“The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." ==========”
― Anonymous

“Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?" ========== Les Misérables”
― Anonymous

“Insist on yourself: never imitate. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.' ========== Rose in Bloom A Sequel to 'Eight Cousins' (Alcott, Louisa May)”
― Anonymous