240 Quotes by Terry Brooks

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.

Things change. Life changes. Nothing stays the same.

This search is all about faith. Faith that what’s clearly impossible might somehow turn out not to be. Faith that we can do what we never would have thought we could. Faith to keep going when everything tells us we should turn back.

A building is a home if the people who inhabit it have memories and love and a place in the world. Otherwise, it is just a building, a shelter against the elements, and it can never be anything more.

He woke to find Larkin Quill standing over him. Even from the back – for he was turned away – the cloaked form of the ex-Tracker was instantly recognizable.

Shea, particularly, had passed the point where his chief emotion was fear; now he felt only a sense of numbness that dulled his mind into self-imposed surrender, a robot-like acceptance of the fact that he was being led to the proverbial slaughter.

There is much to admire in Peter Brett’s writing, and his concept is brilliant. There’s action and suspense all the way.

I would never leave your side for a moment if it were possible. But it is not. It is not in the nature of life that we can be together in all things.

Often, it is the least likely among us who is in a position to accomplish the most.