416 Quotes by John Flanagan

You know, one of these days, I’m acctually going to take offense if people keep throwing out these slurs. And then things are going to get rather ugly. When we Skandians do take offense, we do it with a battleax.

The King was stretched unconscious on the floor, an overturned chair beside him. Horace was shaking his right hand, nursing his obviously bruised knuckles. “Horace Altman,” Halt said, “what on earth have you done?” Horace gestured to the wardrobe full of official garments. “I’ve just elected you King,” he said. “Start getting dressed.

What if Halt were wrong?

When we get to Macindaw,’ he said, ’let’s just send him up the ladder with those planks. He’ll clear the defenders out in no time.

But then, in his lifetime, Halt had often ignored what was technically legal. Technicalities didn’t appeal to him. All too often, they simply got in the way of doing the right thing.

Pi’ o’ the li’er,′ he said and for a moment Will frowned, trying to decipher the words. Then he had it. When he had left Shadow with Trobar, he had told the giant, ‘If she ever has pups, I want the pick of the litter.’ ‘Pick of the litter?’ he translated now and Trobar beamed, holding the little, squirming shape out to him. ‘For you, Wi’ Trea’y.

You’d be surprised what people will believe. Usually, the bigger and the more improbable the lie, the more willing they are to believe it.

As he poured carefully, Arrow’s head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat. “Hold your horses,” he said. The he laughed. It seemed absurd to say tat to a horse.

So there I was, lying on the ground, totally concealed from the Temujai, when a nanny goat started to chew my hair.