A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

“The wise don’t need to ask, the fool asks in vain,”

To light a candle is to cast a shadow .

the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do . . .”

“You keep a narrow door, Master,” said Ged at last. “I must sit out in the fields here, I think, and fast till I grow thin enough to slip through.”