Avi (author)

Edward Irving Wortis (born 23 December 1937), more widely known by his pen name Avi, is a prominent American author of young adult and children's literature. He is a winner of both the Newbery Honor and Newbery Medal.

Perloo The Bold (1998)
The Sayings of Mogwat the Magpie:
 * If you learn to know your enemy before you hate him, you may learn not to have an enemy.
 * Too often a Montmer will take one today over three yesterdays and two tomorrows.
 * To see the world with the eyes of others is to stand atop a new mountain.
 * Knowing the length of a Montmer’s ear won’t tell you if he can listen.
 * Better to live with ten Montmers in uneasy peace than one in a war.
 * When you take one backward hop it requires two hops to go forward.
 * You are never more alone when you are followed by many.
 * Fear not the weak, only they try to hide their weaknesses.
 * Nothing in the world is so small that the sun cannot warm it.
 * Truth is often painful to speak but soothing to live.
 * Of all things the hardest to keep is a promise.
 * Lies fly then fall. Truth hops but keeps going.
 * Of all challenges the greatest is to be yourself.
 * They who pine for the past, fear the future.
 * A life without a challenge is a life not lived.
 * Life is given. The rest one gives oneself.
 * Ignorance is the cruelest weather.
 * Only the dead have no choices.
 * The future begins in the past.