Castle Roogna (Xanth, #3) QUOTES

1 " Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward. "

― , Castle Roogna (Xanth, #3)

3 " Dor shook his head. Such mysteries were beyond his fathoming. All he could do was...what he could do. "

― , Castle Roogna (Xanth, #3)

5 " A man is only the man he seems to be. Inside, where no one sees, he may be a mass of gnawing worms of doubt and ire and grief. ... No challenge is easy. The measure of the challenge a man rises to at need is the measure of the man. "

― , Castle Roogna (Xanth, #3)

7 " The Zombie Master, a bachelor, had a good store of provisions but evidently survived mainly on those that required least effort to prepare: cheese balls, fried eggs from the friers that nested on the rafters, hot dogs from the dogwood that grew just inside the moat, and shrimp from the shrimp plants in the courtyard. "

― , Castle Roogna (Xanth, #3)

9 " the goblins were chanting, “One two three four, Kill two three four, One two three four, Kill two three four,” on and on endlessly. "

― , Castle Roogna (Xanth, #3)

11 " It is not how long one lives, but how well one lives that is important. "

― , Castle Roogna (Xanth, #3)

13 " The flea chomped him hard on the left ear. Dor bashed at it—and boxed his ear. The pain was brief but intense. "

― , Castle Roogna (Xanth, #3)