The Scions of Shannara Quotes

“If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.”
― Terry Brooks, The Scions of Shannara

“The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.”
― Terry Brooks, The Scions of Shannara

“Events and circumstances sometimes conspire against us; if we insist on inflexibility for the purpose of maintaining our beliefs, we end up compromising ourselves nevertheless. We salvage one set of principles only to forsake another.”
― Terry Brooks, The Scions of Shannara