“Events and circumstances sometimes conspire against us; if we insist on inflexibility for the purpose of maintaining our beliefs, we end up compromising ourselves nevertheless. We salvage one set of principles only to forsake another.”
― The Scions of Shannara
― The Scions of Shannara
“Central governments have always been the greatest danger to mankind.”
― The Sword of Shannara
― The Sword of Shannara
“Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations.
Their right to be free men,
Their desire to live in peace,
Their courage to seek out truth,
Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.”
― The Sword of Shannara
Their right to be free men,
Their desire to live in peace,
Their courage to seek out truth,
Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.”
― The Sword of Shannara
“I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.”
― Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
― Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life
“The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.”
― The Scions of Shannara
― The Scions of Shannara
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