John Flanagan

“What if Halt were wrong?”

— John Flanagan

“settle on one direction”

— John Flanagan

It's a sword, not a fairy wand, you know.

— John Flanagan

“Damn! I hate farewells!”

— John Flanagan

“Lend me your helmet”

— John Flanagan

He didn't look back. He never did

— John Flanagan

It's the Kalkara. they're hunting.

— John Flanagan

“Be beholden to no one, he had said. Make sure you owe nobody any favors.”

— John Flanagan

“I forgot how much fun it is having an apprentice.”

— John Flanagan

“Strange, he thought, how seldom people tend to look up”

— John Flanagan

Success tended to make the unorthodox acceptable

— John Flanagan

It was not polite for a Temujai general to allow his emotions to show.

— John Flanagan

Problems postponed have a habit of solving themselves

— John Flanagan

Sometimes, he thought, all you could do was wait.

— John Flanagan

“The following day, he would find a bruise and wonder how it got there. When”

— John Flanagan

Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?' 'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he…

— John Flanagan

Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills…

— John Flanagan

Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.

— John Flanagan

“Next flute player I meet,” said Gilan with grim humor,“I’m going to split his lip for him.”

— John Flanagan

But...what if I mistime it?" Gilan smiled widely. "Well, in that case, I'll probably lop your head off your shoulders." Horace and…

— John Flanagan

“A Ranger carries the lives of two dozen men with him, the old saying went. Edwina thought then that John Buttle might…

— John Flanagan

Never take your eyes off them,” Horace said to Gilan, in an admonishing tone. “Didn’t MacNeil ever tell you that?

— John Flanagan

Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they…

— John Flanagan

All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a…

— John Flanagan

“Halt nodded at him gratefully. "Exactly. We need to elect a leader - and give him the power to make decisions and…

— John Flanagan

“Hal: "...Then we'll leave in a huff, taking you with us." "I've always wanted to travel in a huff," Ingvar mused. "It…

— John Flanagan

A hundred people is rather a large handful for the four of us to take on," Malcolm pointed out. "Do you have…

— John Flanagan

“Farmers don't nap," he said. "Knights nap." "That's where we get the expression 'a good knight's sleep,'" Will said, smiling at his…

— John Flanagan

Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she…

— John Flanagan

“Will wondered how Horace could be so calm. He was unaware that Horace was asking himself the same question about Will, feeling…

— John Flanagan

You should have left him to wander,” Svengal said coldly. Erak looked at him, eyebrows raised. “Would you?” he asked, and Svengal…

— John Flanagan

“I circled the site before I came in. If there's anyone within five kilometers, I'll eat my quiver." Halt regarded him, eyebrow…

— John Flanagan

“The men chorused their understanding. Halt studied them for a moment or two, making sure they had all grasped the idea. He…

— John Flanagan

“Gilan saw his face set in determined lines as he clenched his teeth tightly. The fact that the interruption coincided with a…

— John Flanagan

Gorlog's teeth!" Erak exclaimed, stunned at the numbers. "How many are there?" "Ten thousand, maybe twelve," Halt replied briefly. The Skandian let…

— John Flanagan

Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for…

— John Flanagan

So I sent Halt to straighten matters out. Thought it might be a good idea to give him something to keep him…

— John Flanagan

“She's missing," he said, in that same worried tone. He cast his hands out and looked around the empty practice field, as…

— John Flanagan

“Uphill? There's nothing up the hill," Colly said, trying desperately to work out where this conversation was going. "As a matter of…

— John Flanagan

“People will think what they want to...Never take too much notice of it.”

— John Flanagan