John Flanagan Quotes

“It's a sword, not a fairy wand, you know.”
― John Flanagan, The Outcasts

“If you're a ghost," he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will be one”
― John Flanagan, The Siege of Macindaw

“Only if you're a numbskull."

"Numbskull yourself! Want me to numb your skull with this shovel?”
― John Flanagan, The Outcasts

“As the old Ranger adage went "If a person doesn't expect to see someone, odds are he won't.”
― John Flanagan, The Kings of Clonmel

“What a brotherband!" he declared. "A thief, a touchy first mate, a shortsighted bear, a joker, two twins who can't tell each other apart, a bookworm and a skirl who doesn't know the right shape for a ship's sail." He beamed at all of them, then added, "I can't think of better qualities in a wolfship's crew.”
― John Flanagan, The Outcasts

“It was ten against ten. So, as Svengal later recounted, it was no contest. He had the enemy outnumbered three to one.”
― John Flanagan, The Invaders

“Farmers don't nap," he said. "Knights nap."

"That's where we get the expression 'a good knight's sleep,'" Will said, smiling at his own wit. Halt turned a baleful eye on him.

"Horace is right. You're not funny.”
― John Flanagan, Halt's Peril

“Halt glanced down at his friend's belt quiver. Like his own, it was empty.
"Lost your arrows somewhere, did you?" he said, and the two of them laughed.”
― John Flanagan, The Battle of Hackham Heath