Quotes from Andre Norton

All the quotes below were tweeted and put on my facebook pages over the last week. The first six are from Andre Norton.

“Warriors never knew when they would eat next.” Andre Norton and Lyn McConchie, The Key of the Keplian.  Eleeri, eating well before setting out on the attempt to rescue Romar.

“What is within may be greater than what is without.” Andre Norton and Lyn McConchie, The Key of the Keplian. Sometimes places of Power have his peculiarity.

“If there is nothing you can do, do nothing. Fretting wastes strength.” Andre Norton and Lyn McConchie, The Key of the Keplian. Romar, helpless but saving his strength to act, remembers the advice of his arms-master.

“Can we not work together to resist this threat?” Andre Norton and Mary H Schaub, The Magestone. Kasarion (the Alizon Lord) in his first meeting with the scholars of Lormt.

“May these night hours bring us wisdom.” Andre Norton and Mary H Schaub, The Magestone. Kasarion, evidently quoting an old Alizon ‘good night’.”

“Silent meditation in the dark should be free from observation or intrusion.” Andre Norton and Mary H Schaub, The Magestone. Kasarion is convincing himself that his thoughts could not be observed.

“Computers did not have emotions.” Marna is telling herself this about the planetary compute, but it certainly acts as if it were glad to have a living person back on Riya.

Quotes from Andre Norton

These are the contexts of the quotes tweeted between February 13 and February 19, 2014. All but the last are from The Key of the Keplian by Andre Norton and Lyn McConchie.

“I am not ashamed to change, to alter my mind.” Tharna, the Keplian mare, speaking to Eleeri after she has learned to trust the human.

“In an atmosphere of peace and plenty, attitudes could change in a bare generation.” Eleeri’s belief that given love from birth, even a male Keplian could learn trust.

“Nothing was impossible.” Mayrin thinks that somehow Eleeri, coming out of the unknown, might have a clue to the whereabouts of her brother, lost in the unknown.

“It is well said that when evil ones fall out, good may profit.” Eleeri’s initial reaction to the news that the Gray Ones had tried attacking the rasti.

“Better an enemy secure in its own mind.” Romar to Eleeri when she lets him know of her plans to kill more rasti.

“It takes one only to begin a war,” Part of what Eleeri is shown of the valley’s past.

“You can still be you.” Sue Ann Bowling, Homecoming. Flame’s reassurance to Roi, after he has been having nightmares about becoming some of the nastier R’il’noids he has known as a slave.