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“Unaccustomed to wading in such deep philosophical waters, the head clarck ignored the question and struck out for high ground. ‘We wouldn’t be punishing him for being right, we’d be punishing him for spreading it around.’”

“In sound‘s absence, silence echoes.”

“Patience, endless patience – that was one of the gifts the Patryns had received from the Labyrinth, though it came to them covered with their own blood.”

The entire series is a battlefield for the nature vs. nurture debate.

“you want change to come about nicely and pleasantly. Do you want to see just sort of sleep up on people so that they don’t notice it until they wake up one morning and realise that they’re happier than they were before… And it’s very wonderful and very thoughtful of you and it’s also very naive and very stupid.“

“He was, Jarre discovered, a man of few words, but those words had a way of searing into the heart, leaving a mark that burned long after the iron had grown cool.“

“Hugh had never in his life known anyone to pass out from sheer terror. Marvellous person to have around in a crisis.”

“Mother birds teach the young to fly by tossing them out of the nest. Bane was acquiring the art of magic in the same way.“

Hugh: “as I’ve discovered, hate generally costs a man more than he can afford.”
“And what about love?” Alfred asked softly.
Hugh didn’t even bother to reply”.
Telling about both Hugh and Alfred.

When Hugh tells Alfred he’s been a slave on an elf watership for three years, Alfred wonders “even after that, you can still do business with them? I would think you would hate them all!” And shows his guilt and fear about putting the Patryns in the Labyrinth.