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‘“The wizards of Roke give a dark name to wizardries other than their own.”’

‘Once in the court he had felt himself to be a word spoken by the sunlight. Now the darkness also had spoken: a word that could not be unsaid.’

‘But the death of a great mage, who has may times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s kingdom, is a strange matter: for the dying man goes not blindly, but surely, knowing the way.’

‘“To light a candle is to cast a shadow…”’

‘“To change this rock into a jewel, you must change its true name. And to do that, my son, even to so small a scrap of the world, is to change the world.”’

‘Ged…wondered what was the good of having power if you were too wise to use it…’