Quotes from Terry Brooks

while Man worked all those years to discover the secrets of life, he never managed to escape his overpowering fascination for death.

It is odd how we lead such separate lives so much of the time, keeping our thoughts to ourselves. We

It was a waste of time to wish that things had happened differently.

Truth comes from belief—remember that. Truth comes with recognition that it is universal and all-encompassing and plays no favorites. If you cannot accept it into your own life, you cannot force it into the lives of others. You must embrace it first, before you can employ it! You must make it your armor!

We are the sum of our life's experiences, and our bodies reveal much of what that experience has been.

Qué hay de tu secuestro? —preguntó Menion mientras se vestía, mirando la esbelta silueta de la muchacha al otro lado de la habitación—. ¿Tienes idea de por qué querrían secuestrarte los norteños, prescindiendo de tu belleza? Sonrió con picardía. Aunque no podía ver su rostro, estaba seguro de que se habría ruborizado. Ella permaneció en silencio durante un rato antes de hablar.

Truisms, my young friend, are the useless children of hindsight. Well

We never know what we can be or do until the need is there and we are tested by it. I thought as you did. I was afraid, and I fled with my fear to where I thought I would be safe. But necessity will always find us, and our sense of right and wrong will always find a way to make what is seemingly impossible the reality of our lives

Humans—once they were born into the world—were of a different mind-set. They were determined to make their lives better not by adapting to nature, but by subjugating her. The entire history of their evolution has been centered on taking

Life was uncertain. Death was forever.

How did we Humans come to be so disdained and marginalized that subjugating us like cattle became our future?

are connected by relationships and place and time; we are connected by shared experience. But in the end we are each our own person and ultimately alone.

the Races could succeed in their efforts to maintain peace only by strengthening their ties to one another, not by distancing themselves.

His wishes surfaced like ghosts and fled into the night.

It is one thing to say you will do anything for your friend, but another entirely to actually do what is needed.

She was talking about herself and Sebec. She was explaining to him how hard it could be to accept the way things sometimes worked out.

Power radiated from the specter, power born of experience gained, skill acquired, battles survived, and enemies overcome. Power born of years of staying alive while others died.

Bot pharmacists." Cay spits out the words. "The companies have so much trouble with drug robberies and theft in the Zone they can't get anyone else to work the counters. That one's good enough at its job of filling and delivering prescriptions in its database, but out of its comfort zone when it comes to anything else.

We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers.

As with all things evil, he waited until the balance of hatred, envy, greed—the human failings common to all the races—outweighed the goodness and kindness, and then he struck.

There's an old saying. If someone doesn't want to be with you, then you probably don't belong with them.

Here's to the end of days gone past—some good, some not so good. And here's to the beginning of new days.

If you were a witch and you could do magic, you could wear whatever clothing you wanted.

Of small events are great catastrophes constructed.