The Navigator's Children (The Last King of Osten Ard, #4)

by Tad Williams

when someone has made our lives richer by their presence, we should not only mourn but also be thankful.”

“Queen Inahwen used to tell me stories,” he said. “My favorites were her stories of Flann Coilleoir—Flann the Woodsman, whom the Erkynlanders call Jack Mundwode.”

When we look too fixedly at either the past or the future, we fail to use the most important gift the gods gave us—the reason they made us mortal, the reason they made our bodies weak and then filled the world with dangers. The gods want us to see that each moment we live is a gift.

The gods did make me wisely—but they did not make me wise.

“Nothing is given to us when we come to this world but the promise of an ending, Seoman—so we must believe it to be a gift.”