Tehanu (Earthsea Cycle, #4)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

“All the greatness of men is founded on shame, made out of it. So Hawk the goatherd wept for Ged the Archmage. And looked after the goats, also, as well as a boy his age could be expected to do.”

As if his life were paused when he went to Roke.