Quotes from Terry Brooks

You take life for granted most of the time. You live it in the moment and you don't think a lot about the future because the future seems a long way off. But when people you love die, suddenly the future seems a whole lot closer and very uncertain

Jethen Amenades

Life is a risk. Life is precious. But life has to be lived in a way that matters.

tricornered headdress.

Survive! The word ratcheted through him, an echo that would not be stilled. Endure!

Are there reolls among them? Are there those who would betray you?

They were his family, but even your family could be alienated by discoveries they were not prepared for.

There was no hurry. Time was something he had as much of as he needed.

But chances were few and far between in their world, and mostly you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful.

Reynolds Lucius Wadsworth III was Waddy's real name, the result of a three-generation tradition of unparalleled cruelty in the naming of first-born boys.

It never ends, really, does it? You overcome one obstacle, one evil, one enemy, and another steps into the unoccupied space. We persevere, but it isn't ever really over for us. Not even for those who don't want any part of it.

Time didn't have meaning for him. Time had come to a standstill, the world stopped where it was, everything as still and immutable as the mountains and the sun in the sky.

an event that had the consistency of smoke and lacked anything of substance.

Use of magic expended the sort of dark emotion that feeders craved. They were drawn to it like flies to garbage and Men to evil.

Magic works differently for different people, and there is no way of knowing how it will respond. Even those who have used it repeatedly and come to rely on it have found that it can abandon them.

I cannot see the future, but I can sense its possibilities. I sense now that what I am telling you is the truth. But truth, like magic, can have different meanings. It is not an absolute. It does not always come about as we think it will.

After all, it was like that for all living things—they could never know everything they wished to know. That would never change.

a pond that was little more than a depression in the earth through which a small stream meandered like a lost child.

that's what life does to you. It gives you a whole lot of stuff you don't ask for and expects you to deal with it. No complaining, no excuses.

What she heard was a deep and pervasive silence.

What mattered was removing himself from his present existence in an effort to find his future.

For despite the fact that Man was the only known Race, he still managed to find differences between himself and his brothers and sisters—differences of the coloration of their skin, of the location of their homeland, of the nature of their politics—and Man distrusted anything that was different.

Sometimes faith in something is all you have.

The best defense was your own, and you should never rely on chance or other people.