Alison Croggon Quotes & Sayings

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn. — Alison Croggon

She felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies. — Alison Croggon

There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul. — Alison Croggon

Drunk with beauty, I tore down Armfuls of blossoms. How desolate the marred sky! — Alison Croggon

Music is my home. — Alison Croggon

By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars. — Alison Croggon

You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift ... I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed. — Alison Croggon

Cadvan smiled. "We are all many," he said. "But most of us don't have the privilege of understanding that as clearly as you do. It is hard to know oneself, but until we do, we cannot know why we act as we do. It's a lifetime's quest, and it never ends. — Alison Croggon

Many forgotten things live still in children's tales. — Alison Croggon

Only more keenly aware of how her soul starved within her, its wings wasting with the despair of disuse. — Alison Croggon

As every reader knows in his or her heart, there is much more to truth than mere fact. — Alison Croggon

They choose to burn before the darkness, rather than gutter out like a dim flame. — Alison Croggon

Never be ashamed of your love," he said gently. "The only thing to be ashamed of is denying your love. That is what makes the shadow grow within your heart; that is the darkening of the Light. And we all have many loves. — Alison Croggon

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living. — Alison Croggon

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world. — Alison Croggon

And then like thunder broke the frost,
The chill wall fell, and morrowless
Immortal maid and man embraced,
Their light and shadow mingling. — Alison Croggon

All the fears and doubts surrounding her grief and regrets were swept up into the tempest of the music, poising here in the centre of the moment, a clear vessel of joy. — Alison Croggon

You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction. — Alison Croggon

Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you ... — Alison Croggon

It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it. — Alison Croggon

You are the Fire Lily", said the Winterking softly. "And I am the Ice King. Does fire melt ice? Or ice melt fire? Or may they come together, fire and ice, neither melted nor quenched? — Alison Croggon

Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places. — Alison Croggon

Stubbornly unsolved, and of the laborious and ongoing task of decipherment and translation. For the curious amateur, — Alison Croggon

For almost as long as she could remember Maerad had been imprisoned behind walls. She was a slave — Alison Croggon

Love is never easy. We begin by loving the things we can, according to our stature, but it is not long before we find that what we love is other than ourselves and that our love is no protection against being wounded. Do we then speak to dominate what we love, to make it bend to our will, to stop it from hurting us even though to do so is to betray love? And that is only where the difficulty begins.. — Alison Croggon

There exists a single complete copy, is written in Annaren, the principal language spoken in Annar. In translating — Alison Croggon

Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated. — Alison Croggon

The law is that the hungry must be fed, and the homeless must be housed, and the sick must be healed. That is the way of the Light." Maerad — Alison Croggon

These notes, and that the reader who seeks primarily the pleasures — Alison Croggon

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick. — Alison Croggon

Speak to me, fair maid!
Speak and do not go!
What sorrows have your eyes inlaid
With such black woe?
My dam is buried deep
Dark are my father's halls
And carrion fowl and wolves now keep
Their ruined walls
From: The Lay of Andomian and Beruldh — Alison Croggon

It would be some joke to win through all these perils, only to drop dead of exhaustion within sight of Haven. — Alison Croggon

The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky. — Alison Croggon

I would rather die than stay there." "Well, you might die. — Alison Croggon

The company of true friends, the taste of good food, the blossoms in spring, all the ordinary things that make the texture and meaning of life — Alison Croggon

They obey older laws. — Alison Croggon

The river plunged down in a long waterfall, plashing into several rocky pools on its way down the cliff. — Alison Croggon

I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again. — Alison Croggon

It's not your fault there is evil in the world Cadvan to Maerad — Alison Croggon

There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power. — Alison Croggon

She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise. — Alison Croggon

She wondered if the stars could sense the vibrations of human joy and wonder, of grief and despair. — Alison Croggon

You said that love could not be feigned and could not be stolen" she said passionately. "And now you say I am to be your queen. And yet you imprison me and give me no freedom. You know what it is like to be caged, It is a death. You tell me I cannot hide from you and yet you punish me for hiding.You say you do not want me to fear you and you treat me like I am a slave. Forgive me my Lord"-and here she bowed her head sadly, contrite and meek-"I don not understand why you are punishing me for something you say I cannot do. I do not understand your love, if this is the love you offer me. — Alison Croggon

A man cannot eat more than three meals a day, or live in more than one house at a time. If you have what you need, and more than you need, what is the use of adding to it? — Alison Croggon

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light. — Alison Croggon

Love is one of the true mysteries,' he said at last. 'The truest and the deepest of all. One thing, Maerad: to love is never wrong. It may be disastrous; it may never be possible; it may be the deepest agony. But it is never wrong. — Alison Croggon

There come a few times in a person's life where there is a clear choice," Cadvan said. "The difference between one person and another is how they meet that choice, — Alison Croggon

Maerad, our world is full of sorrow and evil," he said. "But there is also beauty and light and love. You must remember that. — Alison Croggon

Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons. — Alison Croggon

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt. — Alison Croggon

I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar. — Alison Croggon

Triple tongued is triple named — Alison Croggon

The risk of all friendship is, alas, a little grief. — Alison Croggon

I can promise, however, that the scrying will not hurt you," Nelac continued. "And I will order a special feast afterward, just for you, to make up for it." Hem — Alison Croggon

What difference, being a pawn for the Light or a pawn for the Dark?" "There is a great difference. One difference is that for the Dark, certainly, you are a pawn. For the Light, you are a free human being, free to make mistakes, to do wrong, even. You are free to choose, whether or not you believe it. — Alison Croggon

Life is hard, no? And full of sorrow. The Pilani dance in defiance of death and grief and hardship. They choose to burn before the darkness, rather than to gutter out like a dim flame. — Alison Croggon

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.-Alison Croggon — Alison Croggon

While the heart beats, hope lingers. — Alison Croggon

The taste on her palate was pungent and rich, the flavor of woodlands and dark earth simmered in sunshine. — Alison Croggon

It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt," said Saliman quietly. "The Light shines more brightly in the darkness. — Alison Croggon

Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship. — Alison Croggon

At these times, the things that troubled her seemed far away and unimportant: all that mattered was the hum of the bees and the chirp of birdsong, the way the sun gleamed on the edge of a blue wildflower, the distant bleat and clink of grazing goats. — Alison Croggon

It is only the darkness in our own hearts that will defeat us, in the end. — Alison Croggon

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward. — Alison Croggon

I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck — Alison Croggon

Nothing is ever truly gone ...
Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow.
-Hem at Zelika's grave — Alison Croggon