The Chronicles of Prydain Quotes

“I’ve heard men complain of doing woman’s work, and women complain of doing man’s work,” she added, fastening her bony thumb and forefinger on Gurgi’s ear and marching him to a stool beside Taran, “but I’ve never heard the work complain of who did it, so long as it got done!”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“Adaon smiled gravely. “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.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us?”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“...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,”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“There are those,” he said gently, “who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“Stale water is a poor drink,” said Annlaw. “Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“often the trouble with magical things. They’re never quite what you’d expect.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once,” he added, “you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“True kinship has naught to do with blood ties, however strong they be. I think we are all kin, brothers and sisters one to the other, all children of all parents.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain

“There are those who have labored all their lives to gain the gift, striving until the end only to find themselves mistaken; and those who had it born in them yet never knew; those who lost heart too soon; and those who should never have begun at all. “Count yourself lucky,” the potter went on, “that you have understood this now and not spent your years in vain hope. This much have you learned, and no learning is wasted.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Chronicles of Prydain