John Flanagan: Trending quotes (page 5)

“It's the Kalkara. they're hunting.”

“Never take your eyes off them,” Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. “Didn’t MacNeil ever tell you that?”

“Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.”

“Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up.
And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.”

“But if we’re going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it.”
Toshak shrugged. “Do as you wish,” he said. “Occasion or not, as long as they’re all dead, I’m happy.”

“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.”

“Damn! I hate farewells!”

“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”

“Keep practicing," he told her.
"Until I get it right?" she said. But he corrected her.

"No. Until you don't get it wrong.”

“She didn't like the fact that she had reduced a man – no matter how evil he might be—to a drooling idiot.”

“It's not what I expected," he said. "They're far more organized than our intelligence had led us to believe.”

“Arm there," she said. "Other arm, idiot. Now hand there… okay, ready? We're going to start with your left foot. On three. One. Two… What the devil is he doing here?”

“Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.”

“The mace prodded
Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.”

“It was not polite for a Temujai general to allow his emotions to show.”

“Stig: 'Of course, she'll sail rings around Wolfswind,'
Hal: 'Then why didn't you tell him that?'
Stig: 'I like my head where it is.”

“If and perhaps…. The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.”

“Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life”

“If everything is done for me… how will I ever learn?”