Lloyd Alexander Quotes

“But it’s very thoughtful of you to say that. It shows a kind heart, and I think that’s so much more important than being clever.”

″‘In some cases,’ he said, ‘we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.‘”

″‘Neither refuse to give help when it is needed’, Medwyn continued, ‘nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.‘”

″‘I’m trying to make myself invisible.’ ‘That’s an odd thing to attempt.‘”

“Are you slowwitted? I’m so sorry for you. It’s terrible to be dull and stupid.”

“I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man’s hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.”

“Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.”

“You must learn to help yourselves, that is true; but you must also learn to help one another.”

“Nothing we do is ever done entirely alone. There is a part of us in everyone else—you, of all people, should know that.”

“I wish you’d stop wondering about things that can’t make any difference to us.”