Lloyd Alexander

Quotes

1. Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

2. 

   "A pig is a pig," said the stranger, "and a pig-boy is a pig-boy."

3. 

   Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

4. 

   We’re neither good nor evil. We’re simply interested in things as they are.

5. 

   The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

6. 

   We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

7. 

   “Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith life was a forge; and to Dwyvach the Weaver-Woman a loom. They spoke truly, for it is all of these. But you,” Taran said, his eyes meeting the potter’s, “you have shown me life is one thing more. It is clay to be shaped, as raw clay on a potter’s wheel.”

8. 

   Speak up, my boy. If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

9. 

   In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

10. 

    If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

11. 

    Craftsmanship isn’t like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it’s empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

12. 

    “It is easy to judge evil unmixed,” replied Gwydion. “But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.”