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But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, ...more

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Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light? This sorcery is not a game we play for pleasure or for praise. Think of th...more

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Under his feet he felt the hillroots going down and down into the dark, and over his head he saw the dry, far fires of the stars. Between, all things ...more

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It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

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Tenar, I go where I am sent. I follow my calling. It has not yet let me stay in any land for long. Do you see that? I do what I must do. Where I go, I...more

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They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they (...) become dust and bone, and thei...more

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None were left now to unname, and yet how close I felt to them when I saw one of them swim or fly or trot or crawl across my way or over my skin, or s...more