Chelsi

“I've heard men complain of doing woman's work, and women complain of doing man's work, but I've never heard the work complain of who did it, so long as it got done!”
― Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer

“When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, of honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.'

'If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,' Annlaw agreed. 'Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer

“My joy is in the craft, not the gain.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer

“Annlaw was silent and intent; his lined face had brightened; the years had fallen away from it. Taran felt his heart fill with a joy that seemed to reach from the potter to himself, and in that moment understood that he was in the presence of a true master craftsman, greater than any he had ever known.

"Fflewddur was wrong," Taran murmured. "If there is enchantment, it lies not in the potter's wheel but in the potter."

"Enchantment there is none," answered Annlaw, never turning from his work. "A gift, perhaps, but a gift that bears with it much toil."

"If I could make a thing of such beauty, it is a toil I would welcome," Taran said.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer