The High Druid's Blade Quotes

“Much of what happens to us in life is due to chance and circumstances beyond our control. Being in the right place at the right time. Discovering that others have impacted us more than we know and for reasons that are not entirely clear. But hard work matters, too. There is an old saying: The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
― Terry Brooks, The High Druid's Blade

“We think we know them, but we really don’t. We let ourselves be deceived because we are always expecting the best out of those who seem willing to provide it.”
― Terry Brooks, The High Druid's Blade

“but sometimes when you took a chance it was better to hold nothing back and to go all-in. He”
― Terry Brooks, The High Druid's Blade

“Think about it. Think how it works. We deceive ourselves far more easily than others deceive us. Our false perceptions betray us. Our fears and doubts worm their way into our subconscious and cause us to believe what isn't necessarily true but becomes true through our own fixation on the possibilities.”
― Terry Brooks, The High Druid's Blade

“I don’t like to think too far ahead about what’s waiting around the corner. I like to be prepared, but not troubled.”
― Terry Brooks, The High Druid's Blade

“APHENGLOW”
― Terry Brooks, The High Druid's Blade

“She was talking about herself and Sebec. She was explaining to him how hard it could be to accept the way things sometimes worked out.”
― Terry Brooks, The High Druid's Blade

“Your belief is as important as your physical strength. You need to believe in yourself and in your weapon both. Doubt is the enemy. Hesitation is potentially fatal.” Sebec”
― Terry Brooks, The High Druid's Blade

“The Highlander exhaled sharply, running his hands through his red hair. “I trusted him. I liked him. I don’t understand.”
She shook her head. “People are capable of terrible things. We think we know them, but we really don’t. We let ourselves be deceived because we are always expecting the best out of those who seem willing to provide it.”
“He was always so respectful when talking about you. ‘My mistress.’ He called you that constantly. He helped me with my training; he seemed to want to make things easier for me. But all along he was thinking of ways to help Arcannen. Even if it meant I got hurt. Or killed. Chrys, too. He knew what he was doing. He had to. How could he live with himself?”
“He would have explained everything away, given the chance to do so—telling himself and all of us it was necessary or unavoidable. He would have been able to provide reasons for all of it. A basket full of justifications. Sebec had so much potential; he could have done everything he said he wanted to do without giving in to Arcannen. But he didn’t see it. He believed there was only one choice—to use us, to betray the Druid order, to embrace the roles of traitor and spy.”
― Terry Brooks, The High Druid's Blade

“His world was a confusing and treacherously shifting ground, and he did not see that he had any better way to deal with it than simply to keep marching on. It”
― Terry Brooks, The High Druid's Blade

“buy”
― Terry Brooks, The High Druid's Blade