First Test Quotes
"If he were any stiffer, I'd paint as design on him and use him for shield." -Alanna, refering to Lord Wyldon

"What do they think their mothers do, when the lords are at war and a raiding party attacks? Stay in their solars & tat lace?" -Salma

"I suppose I'm being rash & peculiar again, but if it means helping my friend Joren improve his studies, well, I'll just have to sacrifice myself. There's nothing I won't do to further the cause of book learning among my peers." -Neal

"How can I be silent & yet apologize?" -Neal

"Excuse me, your lordship, but am I older or younger today?"
"One day I will tie that insolent tongue of yours in a knot." -Neal & Wyldon

"You have been royally pounded."
"You should see the other fellows."
"There! You see what I have to deal w/!"
"You may have noticed my son has an endless capacity for drama." -Duke Baird, Kel, & Neal

"Why in the name of all the gods in the Eastern & Southern lands would you start a fight w/ them?"
"I didn't like the shape of Joren's nose."-Neal & Kel

Neal began to produce a series of outraged noises that included squawks and whisling inhaled breaths.

"Well label me very impressed & ship me to Carthak" -Neal

"He'll maybe hit the first year to smarten him when the first-year slows down and that's dead wrong. If we take this as pages, what about when we are knights? Do we say, 'oh now i'm going to be nice to the weak & small?' Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?...when I see anyone big pick on someone small, well, there's going to be a fight."-Kel

"You're the oldest ten year old I've ever met"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means I'm trying to justify to myself the fact that the best lesson I ever had on chivalry came from someone five years younger than me." -Neal & Kel

"I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself."-Neal

"You have to disarm your fear or it will make a cripple of you." -Wyldon

"This is what I've come to. Following little birdies." -Raoul