

“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“And he began to see the truth, that [he] had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea

“The brush that is tinder dry from decades of drought, the warming of the earth's climate that sends the storms away north, the hole in the ozone layer. Not punishment, not even justice, but consequence.”
― The Fifth Sacred Thing
― The Fifth Sacred Thing

“Aim for the sun. That way if you miss, at least your arrow will fall far away, and the person it kills will likely be someone you don’t know.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer

“Life was so much harder, but potentially so much more fulfilling, when you found the courage to choose.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer

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