416 Quotes by John Flanagan

All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?''I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.

If you're a ghost," he said, "we mean you no disrespect. And if you're not a ghost, tell me who you are-or you soon will be one

Shokaku is a crane of some kind.''For lifting things?' Will asked.'For flying. A crane is a large bird,' she corrected him...'Seems like a logical thing for a crane to do,' Halt mused. 'I suppose you wouldn't expect it to mean 'a hiking crane' or 'a waddling crane.

Bear with me on this, Evanlyn. I know you're anxious about Horace."WIll was a little puzzled by Halt's words. "No more anxious than the rest of us, surely," he said.Halt turned away and raised his eyebrows as his gaze met Selethen's. Sometimes, he thought, his former apprentice could be remarkably slow on the uptake. He saw the Arridi's slow nod of understanding.~Halt & Will about Evanlyn and Horace

Mind yourself in that guardroom," Gilan told him. Thorn grinned cheerfully. He never had any stomach butterflies before a fight. "I plan to be subtle," he said. Gilan looked at him, his head tilted curiously. "How's that?""Once we go through that door, I'll bash anything that moves. And if they don't move, Stig will bash them." "You have a strange concept of subtle," Gilan said.Thorn's grin grew wider, "So I've been told.

Hal: "...Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us.""I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It sounds very comfortable. I imagine they're well padded.""Lined with feathers, in fact," Gilan put in.

What now?" Lydia asked. "I assume we have a plan B?"He shook his head. "We're way past plan B," he told her. "And we've gone past plan C as well. We're up to plan D now." "And what's plan D?"He jerked his head down the alley to the corner. "Anyone comes round that corner, we shoot them."She pursed her lips critically. "Doesn't sound too ingenious," she said.He shrugged. "I'm not good at ingenious. I'm good at dangerous.

Farmers don't nap," he said. "Knights nap.""That's where we get the expression 'a good knight's sleep,'" Will said, smiling at his own wit. Halt turned a baleful eye on him."Horace is right. You're not funny.

...Call it instinct, I suppose. Or dumb luck.”“I prefer to think it was instinct,” Halt told him. “Sometimes I feel we should pay more attention to it.