Frasi di Terry Brooks

“I ricordi non sono tesori di vetro da tenere conservati dentro una cassa. Sono nastri colorati da appendere al vento.”

“Noi Ohmsford crediamo sempre.”

“Quando si crede in qualcosa, bisogna agire di conseguenza… non si può tenere il piede in due staffe.”

“Le verità ovvie […] sono i figli inutili del senno di poi.”

“Il fatto che quei disgraziati si fossero imbattuti nel contrario di quel che stavano perseguendo è di per sé una lezione per gli uomini.”

“Coloro che commettevano le peggiori atrocità spesso erano spinti da un malinteso senso di giustizia e da quello che a loro pareva un bene superiore.”

“Tutto era avvolto nel silenzio, che nel castello dei Druidi era una sorta di contagio. Ogni cosa, all'interno di Paranor, era ammantata in più strati sovrapposti di silenzio: pareva quasi che il suono fosse un intrusione poco gradita. Forse lo era davvero, in un luogo dove si concentrava un potere tanto forte e la lotta per controllarlo era fatta di macchinazioni segrete e di sottili inganni.”

“[…] soggiogandolo al volere dell'uomo, che non era più uomo, che non era più neanche padrone di se stesso.”

“Le menti umane non sono preparate a affrontare le realtà dell'esistenza immateriale in questa sfera. è un peso che nessun mortale può sopportare a lungo.”

“Tutti quanti alla fine volgevano a due unici scopi… scoprire strumenti migliori per vivere o mezzi più rapidi per uccidere.”

“È l'eterna storia della cecità prodotta dall'eccessivo appagamento.”

“Eppure, si nascondeva nella sua mente confusa la convinzione di poter superare tutti quegli ostacoli apparentemente insormontabili.”

“[Allanon] Tu mi hai condotto, qui, Shea. È per te che sono venuto.”

“Il sole tramontava già fra le profondità verdi delle colline a ovest della vallata, e le sue ombre rosse e rosate sfioravano gli angoli più remoti della campagna, quando Flick Ohmsford cominciò la sua discesa. Il sentiero calava giù irregolarmente per il pendio settentrionale, serpeggiando attraverso i massi imponenti che costeggiavano il terreno, sparendo nelle folte foreste delle pianure per ricomparire a tratti nelle piccole radure e negli spazi liberi della zona dei boschi.”

“Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.”

“There is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.”

“Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.
Visions born of hope give birth to our success.
What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.”

“Who would you be but who you are?”

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

“We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.”

“Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.”

“Evil contained is not evil destroyed.”

“What you write chooses you.”

“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.”

“If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.”

“We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.”

“You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.”

“If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.”

“I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.”

“Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations.
Their right to be free men,
Their desire to live in peace,
Their courage to seek out truth,
Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.”

“Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.”

“We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two.”

“What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from… For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.”

“You think that Man can start again, do you, Shea? Well you might be quite surprised to learn that some things never change, and that the dangers of power are always present, even to a race that almost obliterated itself.”

“The trick of course was not to go just anywhere, but to go where they might accomplish something useful.”

“Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events—they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn’t have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don’t even notice at first, and then one day it’s there. You wake up and you just don’t have the fire anymore.”

“If you think that Man is free to build a new life while the rest of the world drifts by, then you do not know anything of history!”

“What you need to do is take control of things. Don't wait for events to catch up with you; go and meet them head-on!”

“You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.”