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“He’s as impartial as a herring’s backbone, for he favors neither side and is attached to both!”

Lloyd Alexander

Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 15 “The Manxmen” (p. 152)

““Didn’t you ever see a cat before?”
“Of course I did,” said the boy. “Hundreds of them. But just because you’ve seen something, it doesn’t mean you stop looking. There’s always something you didn’t see before.””

Lloyd Alexander

Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 10 “Odranoel” (pp. 100-101)

““What civilization would be complete without a cat?” the Professor went on. “What greater blessing to the home than the kindly yet watchful eye of this tiger of the fireside?””

Lloyd Alexander

Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 19 “Parker’s Perpetual Mousetraps” (p. 190)

“The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.”

Lloyd Alexander

"The Flat-Heeled Muse" http://www.hbook.com/1965/04/choosing-books/horn-book-magazine/flat-heeled-muse/, Horn Book Magazine (1 April 1965)

“At heart, the issues raised in a work of fantasy are those we face in real life. In whatever guise—our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity; or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death—the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love and mercy, is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom.”

Lloyd Alexander

Newbery Award acceptance speech (1969)

“Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

The runic inscription upon the scabbard of Dyrnwyn, correctly read by the bard Taliesin, in Chapter 19
The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968)

“The raw materials of story are the raw materials of all human cultures. Story deals with the same questions as theology, philosophy, psychology. It is concerned with polarities: love and hate, birth and death, joy and sorrow, loss and recovery.”

Lloyd Alexander

"The Grammar of Story", in Celebrating Children's Books (1981), pp. 10–11

“Laws assure animals of protection – formally, officially, set down in black and white. But in the long run, the best protection is the human heart.”

Lloyd Alexander

Fifty Years in the Doghouse (1964), p. 256

“Fantasy, by its power to move us so deeply, to dramatize, even melo-dramatize, morality, can be one of the most effective means of establishing a capacity for adult values.”

Lloyd Alexander

"Wishful Thinking – Or Hopeful Dreaming?" (1968)

“If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967), Chapter 18 (Dwyvach)

“Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old woman’s wisdom.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 9 (Dwyvach to Eilonwy)

“A pig is a pig," said the stranger, "and a pig-boy is a pig-boy.”

Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 1 (Ellidyr)

“Didn’t you ever see a cat before?”

Lloyd Alexander

“Of course I did,” said the boy. “Hundreds of them. But just because you’ve seen something, it doesn’t mean you stop looking. There’s always something you didn’t see before.”
Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 10 “Odranoel” (pp. 100-101)