11 Quotes by Evangeline Walton

A true king never robs his people of peace.

Force is an ill broom to sweep anything clean with.

Questions can be more dangerous than swords.

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird.

Outside the drizzling rain had begun again. It pattered around the house, and on the roofs and eaves, like a million, tiny, stealthy feet: softly, as though the night were teeming with a host of minute, dark beings.

Worry and improper thinking are luxuries as dangerous as drink.

For other men --- men who are part of something, who follow a chief they believe in, or ways they were reared in from birth --- they can keep their eyes from seeing what they have not been taught to see, and do not want to see. But too late was I brought to my father’s house. I tried to be part of it, but I never could.

If men become tyrants, they shape for themselves the doom of tyrants, who are always betrayed.

There's only one force that's strong enough to conquer those in Witch House, and you know how to manipulate it; you turned one current off and the other on. It was the very best kind of distraction."He said, "Love always is.