Quotes from Terry Brooks

He still doesn't know how life can turn you around and twist you about and do with you what it will.

Fool, you are less a prince and more a clown to speak like this!

What on the surface seems obvious and clear is mired in chains of details that are interlinked and sometimes unbreakable.

Life is for the living, and the living have an obligation to carry on.

There are always obstacles to the things we want most, Drisker Arc, but we don't need to dwell on them. We need to make them disappear!

But we don't always get what we want in this life. In fact, we don't get what we want most of the time. We get compromises and settlements, half measures and tamped-down dreams. We get half a loaf baked, half a glass filled.

Sometimes you have to settle for doing what you can as opposed to what you think you should.

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 something that had happened more than five centuries ago. It

Perhaps it was all an elaborate charade of the sort envisioned by Miles, where the dragons were large iguanas and the knights and wizards were all supplied by Central Casting. Perhaps the dream was a sham, an imitation of what the imagination would have it truly be. Even if it were all real – if it were all as described, all as the artist had rendered it to be – still it might be less than the dream. It might be as ordinary in truth as his present life.

Typical bungling officials, elected by the disinterested people to juggle the ball until it can be passed on to some other fool. I could tell five minutes after I opened my mouth that they thought I was crazy. They don't see the danger until the sword is at their own throats—then they scream for assistance from those of us who knew it all along.

given the power to choose our fate. Fate always decides for us in the end, though we can choose the direction and make the journey. We do as much for ourselves as we can. Sometimes it is enough; sometimes it isn't. But we must try; it is in the nature of our character to always try." I stare at him, thinking through what he says.

Again he trailed off into ominous silence.

always know what that reason is.

Everything happens for a reason, though we might not

Strength beyond the physical. Strength of will, determination, and intent—you have to use all three to bring things that can't be otherwise

We build too many walls to be completely honest with ourselves.

seen into existence. Magic is invisible until applied. It is hidden within you. To bring it alive requires mastery, so that you can shape it as you want.

Fairy tales have their origins in reality, Auris. In this world, if not in the one you think you came from. Nothing comes from a void; all things have some connection to truth.

They were left to wait, cocooned in a vacuum of fear and doubt, of non-information and empty hope.

Life does not give you a pass from upheavals even in the best of times. Life gives you living—which is messy and uncertain, constantly shifting your place in the world and your expectations

of what waits just around the next corner.

from nature what they needed to improve their lives without regard for how it might damage nature herself

to realize it leads directly to extinction. Sooner or later nature will have no more to give them.

Humans have blinded themselves to the reality of what they are doing. When you closely examine the path they have taken, you come to realize it leads directly to extinction.