Quotes from Terry Brooks

He understood that letting the magic guide him, that letting it think it was in control when actually it wasn't, allowed him to be its master.

Those who committed atrocities always seemed to do so out of a misconceived sense of righteousness and the greater good.

there were several times when Shea wished that Panamon Creel would tire of his own voice for a few minutes. The tall thief carried on a steady conversation with his companions, with himself, and on occasion with no one in particular, for the entire morning. He talked about everything imaginable, including a good many things about which he seemed to know nothing.

A politician to the end, he remained outwardly friendly and forthright while inwardly thinking of ways to cut his opponent's throat. Literally

Courtesy has nothing to do with the matter, High Lord Ben Holiday. Playing games is a way of life with cats. We tease, we taunt, and we do exactly as we please, not as others would have us do. Playing games is an integral part of our personae. Those who wish to have any sort of relationship with us must expect as much. They must understand that participation in our games is necessary if they wish communication on any level.

Life just swept you along and never took you back to where you had been.

a kaleidoscopic, fragmented rush of images that exploded out of memory. They careened into her like an avalanche and swept her away

Not everything we do in this world is about us, Panther. Sometimes we have do things for other reasons. Sometimes we've got to forget about ourselves and help others. If not, what's the point?

At that moment, he knew what death really meant and he was afraid. There was no adventure in it, no sense of purpose or choice, nothing but a sickening disgust and shock. All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish. Nothing was worth such terrible slaughter—nothing.

His world was a confusing and treacherously shifting ground, and he did not see that he had any better way to deal with it than simply to keep marching on. It

Something deep within hinted with dread persistence that he would never go back to what had been

Your past was your heritage and the foundation on which you were built. You couldn't start over. You could only repair and move on.

Remember—we seek a balance in all things.

Believe for long enough and it will come to pass. Believe it might be so, and it will be so.

He had no illusions about what that meant; he understood the nature of who he was. He was trained to fight, and he looked forward to testing himself in combat. When he was going into battle, he was alive in a way that was both exciting and satisfying. He was complete.

It is my job to know things, the cat said. Cats know lots of things about the world and its creatures, especially people. Cats watch and listen. It is what they do best.

You want to pigeonhole everyone. You like the idea of a world all nicely ordered and dependable. But that isn't how things are. People are messy and changeable. The world is fluid; the people who inhabit it are chameleons. You want to think of everyone as stable and identifiable, but they aren't.

Use Redline wireless, he had argued. Use Bluetooth Extreme. Use something that wasn't hardwired. It was more dependable, less subject to malfunctions than the more rudimentary system they were using might invite. So

We all struggle with what's right and wrong, Paxon. That's the nature of our lives. We have to figure out what we can live with, and hope that what we do to bring it about doesn't exact a cost that's too high. We have to decide where to draw the line.

But fear was something to be overcome, an enemy of a different sort, not something from which to run away but something to confront. He had done so many times in his life, and each time it made him a little stronger, a little more self-assured. The

Past, present, and future, the symbiosis of our lives, the old man continued quietly, gently. Our birth, our life, our death, all tied into a single package that we spend our time on this earth unwrapping. Sometimes we see clearly what it is we are looking at. Sometimes we do not. Sometimes things happen to distract or deceive us, and we must look more carefully at what it is we hold.

When a massive failure to preserve the integrity of an ecosystem occured, no one escaped the consequences.

but sometimes when you took a chance it was better to hold nothing back and to go all-in. He

Sometimes we just have to trust that time and fate will bring us back to where we are supposed to be. Sometimes patience and belief are all we have.