# Quote — David Eddings, The Redemption of Althalus

> “You don’t carry spears or bows?”
>
> “They’d just get in the way, sir. A sling doesn’t weigh hardly anything, and you can find good rocks anywhere.”
>
> “I thought the sling was just a child’s toy.”
>
> “Oh, no, Sergeant Khalor,” Althalus told him. “I carried a sling for years myself when I was younger. It kept me eating on a regular basis.”
>
> “Could a man kill a horse with one?”
>
> “Easily. The bone between a horse’s eyes isn’t very thick. I haven’t used a sling for a long time, but I’m fairly certain I could drop a horse in midstride from a hundred paces.”
>
> “That’s a little hard to swallow, Althalus."
>
> “I’ve taken rabbits at fifty paces — and a horse is quite a bit bigger than a rabbit.”

- Author: [David Eddings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-eddings.md)
- Book: [The Redemption of Althalus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-eddings/the-redemption-of-althalus.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-eddings/the-redemption-of-althalus/you-dont-carry

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> “Sick, isn’t it?” Dhakan replied. “Our glorious, but slightly warped, leader hasn’t let him out of her sight since the day he was captured.”

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> “Surely you don’t agree with that apostate!”
>
> “I was talking about his skill, not his message, Aleikon ... He’s good. There’s no question about that.”

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> “I’m pretty good at that. There were a lot of things I did when I was just a boy that I didn’t tell her about. I didn’t come right out and lie to her, of course. A boy should never lie to his mother, but now and then things sort of slipped my mind. You know how that can happen.”
>
> “Oh, yes.” Althalus laughed. “Things have been slipping my mind for as long as I can remember.”

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