Squire Quotes
“I’m off to the practice courts. You want to come?”
“I’m about to commence 4 years obeying the call of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.” –Kel & Neal

“I’m envious. Lord Raoul’s got to be the most easygoing man alive. My new knight-mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges-sword, knife, & tongue.” –Neal

“Don’t you saddle rats have better things to do? Let’s have an inspection. Mithros witness, if I find one strap undone, heads will roll.”
“But, Sgt. Osbern, sir, I Like my head.” –Sgt. Osbern & Gildes of Veldine

“You’re related to Neal?”
“Sadly, yes. I call him Meathead.” –Kel & Dom

“We do try to eat. I go all faint if I don’t get fed regularly. Only think of the disgrace to the King’s Own if I fell from the saddle.”
“But there was that time in Fanwood.”
“That wedding in Tameran”
“Don’t forget when what’s-his-name, w/ the army, retired”
“Silence, insubordinate curs! Do not sully my new squire’s ears w/ your profane tales!”
“Even if they’re true?” –Raoul, 2 soldiers, Sgt. Osbern, & Dom

“But he’s got the Lioness for knight-master!”
“You think that’s fun?” –Kel & Dom

“You don’t think history gets rewritten, sometimes?” –Flyn

“He’ll stay w/ you now that you’ve hand fed him.”
“Oh splendid. If only I’d known.” –Daine & Kel, refering to the griffin

“Having someone dig links of chain mail out of your scalp is not pleasant.” –Raoul

“Practice is the difference between winning & becoming worm food.” –Raoul

“Was he being unchivalrous?”
“No-he was just being Garvey.” –Raoul & Kel

“Meet anyone worth having a conversation w/?”
“You mean relatives of yours? You know, Neal, I think your branch was cheated when they handed out brains because Dom” She(Kel) ducked the roll Neal threw at her

“Tilt w/ Lord Raoul? Why don’t I just lie down in front of an elephant & let him step on me? I bet it feels the same.” –Neal

“Now you’ve done it. They won’t be able to talk sense for weeks.”
“Easterners normally make sense?” –Kel & Yuki
“I haven’t seen Raoul about. I suppose he defied their majesties & is hiding in his rooms.”
“No, he’s here. Not in this room, though, or we’d have seen a big lump behind the hangings.” –Buri & Kel

“If I pretend to like you, squire, can I use the spyglass?”
“Please don’t try. You’re not that good an actor. Dom, he can look when you’re done.”
“Some people are cocky ever since they killed a whole centaur.”
“Some people are annoying.” –Lerant, Kel, & Dom

“His majesty said w/ all deliberate speed!”
“That’s how we’re doing it. Deliberately.” –A Courier & Raoul

“Have you seen one? (a tournament)”
“The Yamanis don’t have them. They just beat each other half to death in training.”
“They sound like sensible people.” –Raoul & Kel

“Yield, or I carve my initials right there.”
“I yield.”
“And they say conservatives can’t learn” –Kel & a conservative knight

“Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.” –a herald

“You’ll be a wonderful father someday. You’re good a bedtime tales.” –Kel, to Joren

“I’m proving to myself that I’m not afraid of you.”
“But you are.”
“I like lying to myself. It’s fun.” –Kel & the Chamber of the Ordeal

“He kept telling me that 1 Tortallan horseman was the equal of 10 Northern savages.”
“Maybe they are. It’s the 11th savage that gets you.” –Raoul & Flyn

“Mithros, I hate it when the enemy learns new things!” –Dom

“Why don’t they talk about hammering & digging & sawing when they talk about war? They never talk about mud in your teeth.”
“If they did, who’d be crazy enough to fight? Pretty girls would look oddly at a fellow if he talked about mud in his teeth instead of the enemies he killed so they might sleep safe.” –Kel & Dom

“Wear it in health & victory. Now show the nice people.” -Thayet