Inconvient things are always remembered - Lloyd Alexander

I know it isn't nice to vex people on purpose — it's like handing them a toad — but this is much too good to miss and I may never have another chance at it.

You are the oaken staff I lean on," Taran said. "More than that." He laughed. "You are the whole sturdy tree, and a true warrior."
Coll, instead of beaming, looked wryly at him. "Do you mean to honor me?" he asked. "Then say, rather, I am a true grower of turnips, and a gatherer of apples. No warrior whatever, save that I am needed thus for a while. My garden longs for me as much as I long for it.

This much have I learned: A man’s life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.