Angela > Angela's Quotes

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding 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

“Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three

“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

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

“In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three

“Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The High King

“All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. ”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron

“Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Iron Ring

“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat

“For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The High King

“Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.”
― Alexander Lloyd, Time Cat

“I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Westmark

“Find what you want. I will find you.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Westmark

“Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Arkadians

“Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?”
― Lloyd Alexander, The High King

“She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Arkadians

“Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Arkadians

“If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Arkadians

“Behind one truth there is always yet another.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Iron Ring

“You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Arkadians

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis