Status Updates From A Wizard of Earthsea (The E...

‘Once in the court he had felt himself to be a word spoken by the sunlight. Now the darkness also had spoken: a word that could not be unsaid.’

‘But the death of a great mage, who has may times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s kingdom, is a strange matter: for the dying man goes not blindly, but surely, knowing the way.’

‘He fell asleep with a peaceful heart, there in the cold darkness full of the whisper of water.’

‘“To light a candle is to cast a shadow…”’

‘“To change this rock into a jewel, you must change its true name. And to do that, my son, even to so small a scrap of the world, is to change the world.”’