The POTS Quotes

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

"No need to thank me. I just do what they pay me to." -Salma

"What do they think their mother's do, when the lords are at war and a raiding party strikes? Stay in their solars and tat lace?" -Salma

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

"I suppose he could have changed. I myself have noticed my growing resemblence to a daffodil."
"You do look yellow around the edges. I hadn't wanted to bring it up."
"We daffodils like to have things brought up. It reminds us of spring." -Neal and Kel

"So, Neal, do you feel educated?"
"Incredibly. Why, words simply fail me about how educated I'm getting." -Alanna and Neal

"When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often, I can stop laughing before they edge away and start talking about soothing drinks." -Lord Raoul

"You're alive. Most people who go five rounds with my lord can only babble about funeral plans." -Dom to Kel

"His Majesty said with all deliberate speed!"
"That's how we're doing it. Deliberately." -A Royal Courier and Raoul

"Sir, I've learned so much from you. You're the kind of knight I want to be."
"I am not. But that you believe it is the greatest compliment I will ever receive." -Kel and Lord Wyldon

"The Yamanis don�t have them [competitions]. They just beat each other half to death in training."
"They sound like sensible people." -Kel and Raoul

"The glory of knighthood is lovely, isn�t it? The brilliance and fury of battle, the sound of trumpets in the air, the flowers, and all the pretty girls - or pretty boys, in your case - climbing all over us."
"I�ve said it before and I�ll say it again, my lord. You are a bad man." -Raoul and Kel

"You again."
"Yes, of course, it�s me. I�m proving to myself that I�m not afraid of you."
"But you are."
"I like lying to myself. It�s fun." - The Chamber of Ordeal and Kel

"But he�s got the LIONESS for knight-master!"
"You think that�s FUN?" -Kel and Dom

"I�ve been thinking."
"Uh-oh." -Kel and Yuki

"I haven�t seen Raoul about. I suppose he defied their majesties and is hiding in his rooms."
"No, he�s here. Not in his room, though, or we�d have seen a big lump behind the hangings." -Buri and Kel

"You get used to anything -" Kel looks at Daine�s head on an eagle body
"Well, maybe you don�t." -Kel

"Why didn�t they mention hammering and digging and sawing, when they talk about war. They never talk about mud in your teeth."
"If they did, who would be crazy enough to fight? Pretty girls look oddly at a fellow if he talks about the mud in his teeth, instead of the enemies he killed so THEY might sleep safe." -Kel and Dom

"When in doubt, shoot the wizard." -Numair

"I'm to attend balls and banquets without my squire? I can't handle things like requesting water to shave with, or getting my clothes pressed. I need Kel." -Raoul to King Jonathan

"I'm off to the practice courts. You want to come?"
"I'm about to commence four years obeying the call of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what may be the last book I see for months." -Kel and Neal

"She and Father are friends, so she probably won't kill me." -Neal about Alanna "Let's have an inspection. Mithros witness, if I find one strap undone, heads will roll."
"But, Sergeant Osbern, sir, I like my head." -Sergeant Osbern and Giles of Veldine

"Your page-sponsor was a certain mad cousin of mine."
"You're realated to Neal?"
"Sadly, yes. I call him Meathead." -Dom and Kel

"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, with the army, retired."
"Silence, insubordinate curs! Do not sully my new squire's ears with your profane tales!"
"Even if they're true?" -Raoul and his soldiers

"You'd particularly like the tilting practice we have every day when we aren't in the field."
"Tilt with Lord Raoul? Why don't I just lie down in front of an elephant and let him step on me? I bet it feels the same." -Kel and Neal

"Change the law? Squire, what do you think her majesty and I have done ever since we took the thrones? No, don't answer-I dread what you might have the courage to say." -King Jonathan to Kel

"You shimmer like a mirage of delight. Your teeth call to mind wolfhounds romping in the snow."
"Wolfhounds are furry. I hope my teeth aren't. And teeth aren't cold enough to be snow. How is it you get sillier everytime I talk to you?"
"The joy of our nearness cooks my lovestruck heart." -Cleon and Kel

"Did Cleon kiss you for Midwinter luck?"
"Did Princess Kalasin ask for a dance at the ball tomorrow night?" -Neal and Kel

"If you lads-"
"I am a man, I'll have you know. Five years older-"
"Hasn't Lady Alannna thought you not to interrupt?" -Kel and Neal

"As for issues of the body-sex, pregnancy, and so on-perhaps you should discuss those with a woman. (clears throat) If you WANT to discuss them with me, it is my responsibility-"
"No, no! I'll ask Mama, truly I will!"
"Oh, good. I'd probably make a botch of it. I've talked with young men, of course, but even that's been rare. Ususally by the time I get them they know where babies come from." -Lord Raoul and Kel

"Gods curse it, Kel, you heard what he said!"
"I heard a fart You know where those come from. Let it go." -Faleron and Kel

"Very well done. Very well indeed. You listened to my advice bout your shield-but then, I expected no less. I only wish -"
"I know my lord. You wish I were a boy. But being a girl is more fun. More fun-er? Is that right?"
"Go lie down, Mindelan. You're tilt silly." Lord Wyldon and Kel

"Wear it in Health and Victory, Now, show the nice people." -Queen Thayet

"Nobody ever says that, even with Healers your body adds up your breaks and bruises, then gives you the bill in your mid-thirties." -Alanna

"Lady Alanna, would you like to come to supper with us? Someone has to keep Neal from making speeches." -Kel

Neal glared at the chubby second-year with all the royal disdain of a vexed lion. He was limping from a staff blow to the knee. "You are a bloody-minded savage," he informed Owen sternly. "I hope you are kidnapped...by centaurs."

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to shave."
"You don't need to."
"I live in hope, as the priest said to the princess..." -Neal and Kel

"Sir, you talk like Kel couldn't handle the fighting. She's the one who saved our bacon." -Owen

"You are an education, Keladry on Mindelan."
"I'm not sure that's a compliment."
"Neither am I."
"You will pay for that, on the practice courts." -Neal and Kel

Seaver: Its not right.
Neal: What's not right?
Seaver: When Cleon talks to us he doesn't do that. You don't call us 'rose' and 'pearl'. If you don't talk to us like that, you shouldn't do it to her.
Owen: She's as good as us. You don't have to treat her like a girl.
Cleon: But she is a girl...

"I think I could flirt about as well as my gelding dances." -Kel