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This book is ridiculous.

so far, I’m really not enjoying this one.

I have the audiobook, but this is one that I think I need in written form. I’m putting it back on my to-read list until I get it.

“And he began to see the truth, that Ged 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.”

“As a boy, Ogion, like all boys, had thought it would be a very pleasant game to take by art magic whatever shape one liked — man or beast, tree or cloud, and so to play at a thousand beings. But as a wizard, he had learned the price of the game, which is the peril of losing oneself, playing away the truth. The longer a man stays in a form not his own, the greater this peril.”

“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”

“You thought as a boy that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought once. So did we all. And the truth is, that as a man’s real power grows, and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower, until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do.”

“In a library. You don’t have to put up with reality there. It’s as if thousands of strangers have given away their imaginary friends. They’re sitting on the shelves and calling to you as you walk past.”

“The birds are like tourists. They screech and make a mess, but you’re not allowed to shoot them.”

Man, the taxi driver is such a great character!