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“…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…”

“The power you had to call it gives it power over you: you are connected.” // “It is the shadow of your arrogance, the shadow of your ignorance, the shadow you cast.”

“You have great power inborn in you, and you used that power wrongly … And you were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin?”

“Ged joined his voice to the praises, but not his heart. ‘I could have done better,’ he said to himself, in bitter envy; and all the joy of the evening was darkened for him, after that.” // “But for the most part he was all work and pride and temper, and held himself apart.”

I’m just like Ged. I feel like by the end of it I’m gonna feel SO called out by this children’s book

“Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?”

“He … raged at his weakness, for he knew his strength. There was power in him, if he knew how to use it …”