Chelsi

“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

“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

“Count the deed, not the thought.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer

“If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.”
― Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer