Lloyd Alexander

“The things that are hardest to do are often the things that are best to do.”

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”

“Is there a right way to be a hero? I don't know. I think you just do it.”

“The journey is the treasure.”

“Keep trying. That's the rule. But you don't have to keep trying the same thing.”

“There's no shame in fear. What matters is how we face it.”

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”

“Once you have opened a book, you have opened a mind.”

“A cat is a cat. And that's that.”

“Unless you get your head out of the clouds, you'll never see the stars.”

“For each of us, there is a destiny waiting to be fulfilled, a calling to be answered.”