“ The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every da… Terry Brooks
“ Fantasy writing must be grounded in both truth and life experience if it is to work. It can be as inventive and creative as the writer can make it, a whirlwind of images and plot twists, but it cannot… Terry Brooks
“ Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities. Terry Brooks
“ Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, i… Terry Brooks
“ And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, believed its teachings alone were the way that others must follow, and claimed special knowledge of… Terry Brooks
“ Obi-Wan's young face clouded. "Some secrets are best left concealed, Master." He shook his head. "Besides, why must you always be the one to do the uncovering? You know how the Council feels about the… Terry Brooks
“ What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source. Terry Brooks
“ There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time. Terry Brooks
“ When you can do that, little Wren, when you can accept the wearing down and the eroding, then you can do anything. How did I manage to keep going out nights? I just told myself I didn’t matter all tha… Terry Brooks
“ Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost, High Lord. Believe it saved, and it may be. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. Terry Brooks
“ Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful. Terry Brooks
“ The Elven people believe that preservation of the land and all that lives and grows upon it, plant and animal alike, is a moral responsibility. They have always held this belief foremost in their cond… Terry Brooks
“ What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our dar… Terry Brooks
“ Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world. Terry Brooks
“ There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and strength of body and heard ... and some work with revelation. Terry Brooks
