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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity...

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Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you...

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The Elf Queen of Shannara

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.Vis...

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Fantasy writing must be grounded in both truth and life experience if it is to work. It can be as in...

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What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently...

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A Knight of the Word

The Elven people believe that preservation of the land and all that lives and grows upon it, plant a...

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The Elfstones of Shannara

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rath...

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A Princess of Landover

A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never ...

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A Princess of Landover

Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things ...

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A Princess of Landover

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. T...

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Armageddon's Children

Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short a...

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What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and ...

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And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, ...

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Bearers of the Black Staff

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost, High Lord. Believe it saved, and it may be. Vision...

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Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold

There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made...

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Magic Kingdom For Sale/Sold

But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent.

The Elfstones of Shannara

Obi-Wan's young face clouded. "Some secrets are best left concealed, Master." He shook his head. "Be...

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Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

The Black Unicorn

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibili...

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Who would you be but who you are?

There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. ...

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The Black Unicorn

We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as...

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The Druid of Shannara

When you can do that, little Wren, when you can accept the wearing down and the eroding, then you ca...

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The Elf Queen of Shannara

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have...

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Terry Brooks

Writer

Born: 1944-01-08

Died: N/A

Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks (born 8 January 1944) is an American author most famous for his Shannara epic fantasy book series.More