[Quinn]

The quote that sticks in my mind the most is in The Gift, p106, just before they go off to the feast in Innail.

"I'll stick like a burr," said Maerad.

I don't know why this has stuck with me so much. It made me smile when i first read it - funny mental image, i think.

[Bridie]

i think the quote stuck to you like a... burr! :p what is a burr anyway?

[Eled Idhil na]

I do believe a burr is that rough prickly husk or covering surrounding the seeds or fruits of plants. Not very pleasant things to have stuck into you, I'm sure :p

Anyways, I haven't been on the forum for a long while mainly because my computer crashed and we had to get a new one which took ages.

Here's one of my favorite quotes from Pellinor series. It's from The Naming/The Gift. It might not be exact word for word though and I apologize if it isn't. It's rather long as well... ;)

"Here on the earth's surface, thought Maerad, people labor and suffer and die. Does any of that anguish touch the stars? She wondered if the stars could sense the vibrations of human joy and wonder, of grief and despair. Did the stars know what was right and wrong? What were the Dark and the Light to them? She remembered what Ardina had said to Cadvan: the Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places. Perhaps, at this distance from human affairs, another pattern emerged from the chaos, another kind of necessity, and even evil became part of a larger music....Maerad then felt as if she keenly understood, for the first time in her life, the intricate relationships between all things, a web of inifinite beauty and complexity. Between the small orb of her eye, and the distant star, she felt the pull of a tiny glowing thread, one of the infinite gravities that wove together the living and the dead, the far and the near, the tiny and the immense, in one everchanging, ever-renewing world."

It's beautiful isn't it? Alison is brillant.

[Celebriän]

that's right at the end isn't it? when they're on the boat to thorold?
I like the way that Maerad becomes quite philosophical. Your right Eled it is beautiful.

[owleye]

yea that beautiful

[Silver Serpent]

pg. 412 of The Gift (The Naming for some of you!)

Cadvan to Maerad:

"By all we have suffered together, by the sworn bond you owe me as your teacher, and by the deeper bond you owe me as your friend I bid you tell me: What has happened to you, Maerad of Pellinor?"

It's at the beginning of the chapter 'old scars', and it gets me so choked up every time! Masterful use of words Alison!

although the other quotes on this thread are good too...
Tears come to my eyes every time i read that too.. :o Alison is so talented. :)

[wannabeactor]

This is one that i found the other day, pg 36, The Gift.

"He seemed more mercurial; his face was mobile, and his thoughts flowed over it like sum rippling over water"

Beautifully written. Thanks alison. :)

[soon2b_author]

OOW, I like that one!!!

I just saw this on page 231 of The Riddle: "Two nights later, Maerad dreamed of Hem. It had nothing of a foredream's dreadful clarity; but she hoped it was some kind of true dreaming, nevertheless. She was sitting somewhere in bright sunshine, next to her brother. Hem had a big, white bird on his shoulder and he was..."

Do I see a hint of Irc, my favourite albino crow in this quote?

the almighty albino crow hides among the pages, ready to soar at the sight of danger
soon2b_author

[alison]

Slightly off-topic - but yes, indeed, that's Irc!

[Tari]

Slightly off-topic - but yes, indeed, that's Irc!

Tut Tut Alison!! :D Wat have we told you about going off topic!!
(Sorry couldn't resist!)

Anyhoo. . .one of my other fav quotes was again said by Cadvan. . wise Bard he is. "The wise are those who know how little they know." . . .in The gift i think. I haven't read it in a while but I've always remebered it.

~ Tari