Top 20 Quotes From Colwyn

Ergo: There was a difference of opinion concerning a gooseberry pie. The man left it sitting on his windowsill. What did he expect?
Prince: Perhaps he expected to eat it.

Velta: Let me comfort you.
Prince: I can't accept comfort when she has none.
Velta: You'll not then?
Prince: I cannot.
[Velta blinks her eyes and reveals that she's a changling]
Velta: My master says make him betray her. If not, then kill him. Yes, he is my master. These talons were a heartbeat away from your throat. I could've killed you in an instant... but in the hour that I knew you, I loved you.

Ynyr: The beast has many weapons. This was one of them. A changeling.
[Looks at Rell]
Ynyr: How did you know?
Rell the Cyclops: I found the seer's body in the quicksand.
Prince: He gave his life for us.
Titch: He was my only family.
Prince: We're your family now.

Prince: Would you follow a king to the black fortress?
Torquil: Now I know you're a lunatic. I wouldn't follow me own father to the black fortress.

Torquil: Silence! You're surrounded by a hundred men.
Prince: A hundred is not enough.
Torquil: Well what have we here? A fighter?
Prince: Besides you're short by about ninety men.

Prince: Lyssa!
Ynyr: She's alive.
Prince: Where?
Ynyr: Stay still.
Prince: Where?
Ynyr: For now, beyond your reach.

[Colwyn and Lyssa meet for the first time]
Princess: I've chosen well.
Prince: So have I.

Prince: The glave is nothing but an ancient symbol. It doesn't really exist.
Ynyr: It exists. Up there in a cave on the highest peak.

Ergo: Wait! Wait for me. I've just remembered, I have urgent business in this direction.
Prince: What business?
Ergo: Staying alive.

[Ynyr has fixed Colwyn's wounds and starts to leave]
Prince: Lyssa?
Ynyr: They will hold her in the Black Fortress.
Prince: Can you lead me to it?
Ynyr: You must have help.
Prince: I'll find men on the way.

Torquil: I don't kill men without good reason.
Prince: Nor do I. And be thankful for it.

Princess: My father says that good fighters make bad husbands.
Prince: Well, that depends.
Princess: On what?
Prince: On whether you expect a husband to follow you around. Jump every time you clap your hands.
Princess: Wouldn't you jump for me? No of course not. You're a warrior.

Prince: Who are you?
Ynyr: I am Ynyr.
Prince: The old one?
Ynyr: Well, not as old as all that.
Prince: You've come down from the Granite Mountains?
Ynyr: Yes. I'm needed now.

Torquil: [Colwyn gives the king's key to Torquil to rid himself of his manacles] I thought I might keep them as a momento of our journey.
Prince: Well, the key is yours.
Torquil: Only the king and his Lord Marshall carry this key!
Prince: Right.
[Torquil laughs realizing he's just been appointed Lord Marshall]

Prince: The forest is not safe. You best travel with us.
Ergo: Me travel with you? Do you know who I am?
Prince: No.
Ergo: I am Ergo the magnificent. Short in stature, tall in power, narrow of purpose and wide of vision. And I do not travel with peasants and beggars. Goodbye!

Velta: You must eat something.
Prince: I'm not hungry.
Velta: Please. For me?
[Colwyn accepts]
Prince: Thank you.

Prince: You've been with us for a long way now.
Rell the Cyclops: Since the beginning. When I learned that the old one had come down, I knew that the time had come.
Prince: Join us then. All men need company.
Rell the Cyclops: Yes, all men.
[they shake hands]

Seer: The temple is at the center of the swamp where three trees grow as one.
Prince: How can anything grow in that place? It smells of death.
Ynyr: Death and power are close cousins.
Torquil: I don't think I like your relatives, old man.

Prince: The reward is freedom... and fame!
Torquil: Freedom? We have it! And fame? Nah. It's an empty purse. Count it, go broke. Eat it, go hungry. Seek it, go mad!

Ynyr: Do not use it until you need it.
Prince: How will I know when?
Ynyr: You'll know.