“I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.”
“You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."
"And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.”
“Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!”
“You aren't a bit romantic, are you?" he asked, amused.
She sat back and stared at him. She was beginning to think that Neal required a keeper. He seemed to have the craziest ideas. "Romance? Isn't that love stuff?" She asked finally.
"It's more than just love. It's color, and-and fire. You don't want things magnificent and filled with-with grandeur," he said, trying to make her understand. "You know, drama. Importance. Transcendent Passion."
"I just want to be a knight," Kel retorted, putting her used tableware on her tray. "Eat your vegetables. They're good for you.”
“Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?'
'Never. They're mother's milk to me.”
“What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.”
“If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.”
“You'll see. I'm as good as any boy. I'm better. - Kel”
“She promised herself that from now on she would try to sit as close to Neal as possible. She could not kick someone eight chairs away.”
“Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.”
“This is what I've come to," he said mournfully. "Following little birdies”
“If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.”
“Don't go thinking you can bounce me all over the ground just because I look like somebody's grandmother," the woman said dryly. "Some grandchildren need more raising than others, and I supply it," she grinned, showing very white teeth. -- Esa Bell, Shang Wildcat”
“You can smack some people in the face with a haddock and they’ll still call it a mouse if a mouse is what they want to see.”
“The problem with a wish list was what it told you about the person who wrote it. If it's honest, it's a rock-bottom, barebones, clear shot all the way to someone's soul.
Hats can do the same thing.”
“Good, stupid high school boys aren't worth It" She throws an arm over my shoulder. "They're trained to like a certain type of girl, with highlights and pretty nails- the kind who are good at remembering to put on lotion every morning after they shower." She smiles like she's got a dirty secret. "And let's face it..... sluts.”
“Don’t say his name. I don’t want him in here. I will cut him out.”
“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are. Stop for a second and look at this in your life right now. It’s important.”
“If you were lucky, very lucky indeed, there were one or two people in your life who you could tell the unvarnished truth too, shell and egg. And that these people held the essence of you inside them. The rest would be conversations that ended when night fell, or the dinner part ended.”
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