"...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a crown for your head; I will speak the flowers of the field into a cloak; I will speak the racing stream into a melody for your ears and the voices of a thousand larks to sing it; I will speak the softness of night for your bed and the warmth of summer for your coverlet; I will speak the brightness of flame to light your way and the luster of gold to shine in your smile; I will speak until the hardness in you melts away and your heart is free...""
— Stephen R. Lawhead (Taliesin)

"If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just. "
— Stephen R. Lawhead (Hood)

"To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled."
— Stephen R. Lawhead (Arthur)

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

"If more of us valued food and cheer above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Never laugh at live dragons"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil."
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"He fainted. Then he came to and remembered what happened and fainted again."
— Donita K. Paul (DragonSpell)

"Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange."
— Donita K. Paul, DragonSpell

"Well, what are we waiting for? ...She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go."
— Donita K. Paul (DragonQuest)

"To the wise, a prick on the finger avoids a hole in the heart."
— Donita K. Paul

"There's nothing like a mission to save the world to liven up a vacation."
— Donita K. Paul, DragonQuest

"I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies."
— Donita K. Paul

"Contented children are valuable, as is the peace that surrounds them."
— Donita K. Paul (DragonKnight)

"'It's a wisdom that comes from seeing how things work. Things you want to happen always take a long time.' She pointed one little finger at the meech dragon and shook it in his face. 'You may read books and know bunches, but I have lived life longer than you.'"
— Donita K. Paul, DragonQuest

"Most uncomfortable! Did we lose anyone? Head count! Lee Ark, Leetu, and Brunstetter. Three. Should we count the meech egg? No, I think not. Don't drop it, Brunstetter. I'm to take it home and raise it. Ridiculous. Being a parent at my age. Where were we? Oh, yes, three. One o'rant, two kimens, two minor dragons. Eight. A librarian and a diplomat. Ten."
— Donita K. Paul, DragonSpell

"You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl.
"And you'll exploit me," Sophie said.
"And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me."
— Diana Wynne Jones

""Go to bed, you fool," Calcifer said sleepily. "You're drunk."
"Who, me?" said Howl. "I assure you, my friends, I am cone sold stober." He got up and stalked upstairs, feeling for the wall as if he thought it might escape him unless he kept in touch with it. His bedroom door did escape him. -- "
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!"
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet.

"I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"Howl: "I've got a hangover"
Sophie: "No, you hit you head on the floor"
Howl: "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.""
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"Nobody gets praised for the right reasons."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)

"That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.'"
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"I make that four horses and ten men just to get rid of one old woman. What did you do to the King?"
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"I hope your bacon burns"
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
-the Witch of the Waste"
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all."
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"Sophie did not care to think how Howl might react if Fanny woke him by stabbing him with her parasol"
— Diana Wynne Jones (Howl's Moving Castle)

"Truth is a constant delight to those that love her; such beauty holds no power to offend."
— Stephen R. Lawhead

"..none of this surprised me; it was as if this meeting between us was foreordained by a force greater than either of us. I know I had the events wheeling swiftly over a well-traveled course to a destination long ago established. I felt as if I was merely saying the words I had been destined to say. If there was no surprise, neither was there fear or alarm. The circumstance seemed both right and natural--as if we had talked this way a thousand times, and knew well what the other would say... This is the only truth we can know in life. Nothing else in the world is certain--only this: that a man and woman should come together in love."
— Stephen R. Lawhead

"Oh, but once my memories had pulsed with the blood-heat of life. In desperation, I forced myself to recall that once, I had walked with kings and conversed in languages never heard in this land. Once I had stood at the prow of a Sea Wolf ship and sailed oceans unknown to seamen here. I had ridden horses through desert lands, and dined on exotic foods in Arab tents. I had roamed Constantinople’s fabled streets, and bowed before the Holy Roman Emperor’s throne. I had been a slave, a spy, a sailor. Advisor and confidant of lords, I had served Arabs, Byzantines, and barbarians. I had worn captive’s rags, and the silken robes of a Sarazen prince. Once I had held a jeweled knife and taken a life with my own hand. Yes, and once I had held a loving woman in my arms and kissed her warm and willing lips...Death would have been far, far better than the gnawing, aching emptiness that was now my life."
— Stephen R. Lawhead

"I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire."
— Stephen R. Lawhead

"We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesu came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get that notion? The Lord came, not to remove our suffering, but to show us the way through it to the glory beyond. We can overcome our travails. That is the promise of the cross."
— Stephen R. Lawhead

"They always forget the last part of that saying: curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back" its something to that effect anyway."
— Tamora Pierce

"Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary!"
— Tamora Pierce (Lady Knight)

"Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again."
— Tamora Pierce

""Kel: He says he's changed.
Neal: I suppose he could have changed, I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
Kel: You do look yellow around the edges. I hadn't wanted to bring it up.
Neal: We daffodils like to have things brought up. It reminds us of spring.""
— Tamora Pierce (Page)

"I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is."
— Tamora Pierce

""When in doubt, shoot the wizard.""
— Tamora Pierce

"You are a bloody-minded savage. I hope you are kidnapped by centaurs."
— Tamora Pierce

"Kel grinned, but said "You know, orgres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart."
"And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound," he admitted cheerfully. "I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself."
Kel groaned and punched him in the shoulder."
— Tamora Pierce (First Test)

"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."
— Tamora Pierce (First Test)

"Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?"
— Tamora Pierce

"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep."
— Tamora Pierce (In the Hand of the Goddess)

"Thus went my first Court Day.
I think i'm going to puke."
— Tamora Pierce (Terrier)