"- We don't always have that choice, Garion. Don't be too surprised if that other world someday chooses you to do something that must be done -- some great and noble thing."

"- "Some people collect names as they go along through their lives. Sometimes names wear out--just like clothes.""

"- "I've regretted many things in my life. I doubt that one more will make all that much difference.""

"Taiba: [to Relg about sex] Cruelty is a sin; lack of compassion is a sin. But that other little thing? I hardly think so..."

"- Many good and solid men would say so, -- good men who will live out their lives believing only in what they can see and touch. But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?"

"He's talking about the day he learned to fly. That's a very important day for a bird."

"If I might suggest it, however, you should give some thought to the virtue of constructive cowardice. These instincts of yours could shorten your life."

"Now, Garion!"

"The money's just a way of keeping score. It's the game that's important"

"Cooking is an art which anyone with patience may learn. Magic is quite something else."

"- [Sarcastically] And in nine years you've learned everything that is both possible and impossible? You are a truly remarkable boy, Garion"

"[After being told that you're supposed to jump away after you spear the boar] I didn't really think about it, but wouldn't that seem, well, cowardly?"

"- "I've never seen any fortune-teller who could even tell for sure if it's going to rain tomorrow.""

"Did you want to argue about something in particular or did you just want to start yowling and sort of make it up as we go along?"

"Since you don't want to take the medicine, I guess it'll have to come off."

"I've met a few Dagashi, but never one of their best. This could be interesting."

"Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again."

"I've never pretended to be consistent."

"Little jobs require little men, and it's the little jobs that keep a kingdom running."

"Any temporal dislocation west-east travellers feel goes the other way. They feel it's earlier than it should be."

"'Second, people think better when their stomachs are full.' He shrugged. 'It's just a law of nature.'"

"He reflected that people used the slide with much less coaxing and a lot more enthusiasm when there was a threat they could see - a hole in the fuselage or a fire in one of the portside engines."

"Deep in the trenches carved into the floors of the Pacific and the Indian Oceans, there are fish which live and die without ever seeing or sensing the sun. These fabulous creatures cruise the depths like ghostly balloons, lit from within by their own radiance. Although they look delicate, they are actually marvels of biological design, built to withstand pressures that would squash a man as flat as a windowpane in the blink of an eye. Their great strength, however, is also their great weakness. Prisoners of their own alien bodies, they are locked forever in their dark depths. If they are captured and drawn toward the surface, toward the sun, they simply explode. It is not external pressure that destroys them, but its absence."

"He remembered a pilot telling him once, 'They pay us a hundred thousand dollars or more a year, Brian, and they really do it for just one reason. They know that in almost every pilot's career, there are thirty or forty seconds when he might actually make a difference. They pay us not to freeze when those seconds finally come.'"

"'I can always feel the light. It's like heat inside my head.'"

"He had been flying passengers long enough to know a good bit…about their group psychology. When a passenger freaked out, few if any of the others ever moved. Most air travellers meekly surrendered their option to take individual action when they entered the bird, sat down, and buckled their seatbelts around them. Once those few simple things were accomplished, all problem-solving tasks became the crew's responsibility. Airline personnel called them geese, but they were really sheep ..."

"When you called for help on the emergency band, you always got a prompt response."

"It's like glimpsing a beautiful woman for just a moment in the back seat of a limousine - she looks even more beautiful than she really is because you know she's not yours, can never be yours."

"I've found, though, that in real life coincidence is not the exception but the rule."

"…of the langoliers, who obviously did not know, they were lurking everywhere, behind every bush and tree, in every shadow, just over the horizon… The langoliers had come for all the foolish, lazy people, just as his father had always said they would."

"Shortly after the fourth anniversary is the optimum time for divorce, he would tell them."

"Never believe a writer. Listen to them, by all means, but never believe them."