T.A. Barron > Quotes

“Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.”
― T. A. Barron

“What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good or ill. If humans can live in harmony with other forms of life, the world rejoices. If not, the world suffers--and may not survive.”
― T. A. Barron

“And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues...”
― T.A. Barron, The Lost Years of Merlin

“And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.”
― T.A. Barron, Merlin's Dragon

“Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever.”
― T.A. Barron, Merlin's Dragon

“Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.”
― T.A. Barron

“It's much more fun to be the exception, not the rule”
― T.A. Barron, Ultimate Magic

“My constellations are not made from the stars, but from the spaces between the stars. The dark places. The open places, where your mind can travel forever and ever.”
― T. A. Barron, The Lost Years

“A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.”
― T.A. Barron

“Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end.”
― T.A. Barron

“Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.”
― T.A. Barron

“As the wind swelled, my tree started to sway. Almost like a human body it swung back and around, gently at first, then more and more wildly. While the swaying intensified, so did my fears that the trunk might snap and hurl me to the ground. But in time my confidence returned. Amazed at how the tree could be at once so flexible and so sturdy, I held on tight as it bent and waved, twisted and swirled, slicing curves and arcs through the air. With each graceful swing, I felt less a creature of the land and more a part of the wind itself.
"The rain began falling, it's sound merging with the splashing river and the singing trees. Branches streamed like waterfalls of green. Tiny rivers cascaded down every trunk, twisting through moss meadows and bark canyons. All the while, I rode out the gale. I could not have felt wetter. I could not have felt freer.
"When, at last, the storm subsided, the entire world seemed newly born. Sunbeams danced on rain-washed leaves. Curling columns of mist rose from every glade. The forest's colors shown more vivid, its smells struck more fresh. And I understood, for the first time in my life, that the Earth was always being remade, that life was always being renewed. That it may have been the afternoon of this particular day, but it was still the very morning of Creation.”
― T.A. Barron, The Lost Years of Merlin

“Hy gododin catann hue
Hud a lledrith mal wyddan
Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri
Varigal don Fincayra
Dravia, dravia Fincayra

(Talking trees and walking stones,
Giants are the island's bones.
While this land our dance still knows,
Varigal crowns Fincayra.
Live long, live long Fincayra.”
― T. A. Barron

“Every living thing is precious somehow.”
― T.A. Barron, The Seven Songs of Merlin

“You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected? ”
― T.A. Barron

“Eremon liked to say that hooves can make speed, while hands can make music.”
― T. A. Barron, The Fires of Merlin

“He is a mysterious and captivating fellow, this wizard who can live backward in time…”
― T.A. Barron

“In chess, as in life, your choice will make all the difference.”
― T.A. Barron, The Lost Years

“Change. The more you do it, the more you don't. The farther you seek it, the nearer you find it. The less it's in your world, the more it's in you.”
― T. A. Barron

“Everything is connected to everything else.”
― T.A. Barron, The Seven Songs of Merlin

“Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?”
― T.A. Barron, Ultimate Magic

“Hope is sometimes fleeting, but always precious. Sad to say, when the battle began, most of my companions had no hope at all.”
― T.A. Barron, Ultimate Magic

“The best way to protect something is to set it free.”
― T.A. Barron, The Seven Songs of Merlin

“You worry about who you are too much. Just be yourself, and you'll find out eventually.”
― T.A. Barron, The Lost Years

“For a true name holds true power.”
― T.A. Barron, The Seven Songs of Merlin

“The heart can see things invisible to the eye.”
― T.A. Barron, The Seven Songs of Merlin

“All of us, all living things, have the potential to change.”
― T.A. Barron, The Seven Songs of Merlin

“The strongest bonds are of the heart.”
― T.A. Barron, The Seven Songs of Merlin

“A life- whether seamstress of poet, farmer or king, is not measured by it's length, but by the worth of it's deeds and the power of it's dreams.”
― T.A. Barron

“In May, anything seemed possible. If only I could learn to harness time itself. To make every month like May! Or, perhaps, to live backward in time, so that whenever the end of the month arrived, I could turn May right around and live it all over again.”
― T.A. Barron, The Lost Years