240 Quotes by Terry Brooks

You want to pigeonhole everyone. You like the idea of a world all nicely ordered and dependable. But that isn’t how things are. People are messy and changeable. The world is fluid; the people who inhabit it are chameleons. You want to think of everyone as stable and identifiable, but they aren’t.

We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers.

She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn’t she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.

Here’s to the end of days gone past – some good, some not so good. And here’s to the beginning of new days.

Sometimes change is necessary. Sometimes we recognize the need for it, but we don’t know how to achieve it. We misread its nature. We think it is beyond us, failing to recognize that our inability to act is a problem of our own making. Change is the solution we require, but it is not a goal that is easily reached. Identifying and disposing of what is troubling to us requires caution and understanding.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers – Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

Blind acceptance of what you believe to be the dictates of fate and circumstance is dangerous.

Some decisions cannot be made in advance of the time that will demand them. We cannot always anticipate the way in which things will happen and therefore cannot anticipate what we will do. We must accept that.

We do not always recognize the thing that comes to destroy us.