Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold Quotes

“Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost, High Lord. Believe it saved, and it may be. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success.”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold

“There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time.”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold

“It wasn’t simply his choosing to be alone that kept him that way; it was almost a condition of his existence. The feeling that he was an outsider had always been there.”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold

“But Miles had always approached life differently than he, always preferring to blend in with his surroundings rather than to shape them, always preferring to make do. He just didn’t understand that there were some things in life a man simply should not accept.”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold

“Morning followed night, as it always does, but Ben awoke questioning the assumption that it necessarily must.”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale--Sold

“What once was and was good ought not to be cast aside.”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold

“There were always risks in life. Life was meant to be lived like that because if it wasn’t, then what was the purpose of living it at all? Measuring”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale--Sold

“Ben Holiday, briljant advocaat, onverschrokken avonturier en aspirant-koning van Landover had zojuist een hele grote vergissing begaan.”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold

“Perhaps it was all an elaborate charade of the sort envisioned by Miles, where the dragons were large iguanas and the knights and wizards were all supplied by Central Casting. Perhaps the dream was a sham, an imitation of what the imagination would have it truly be. Even if it were all real – if it were all as described, all as the artist had rendered it to be – still it might be less than the dream. It might be as ordinary in truth as his present life.”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold

“Maybe he should phone it all in to Andy Rooney.”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale--Sold

“Couples and singles made a poor mix, and most of their friends had been couples. He hadn’t done much to foster continuing friendships in any case, spending most of his time involved with his work and with his private, inviolate grief. He was not such good company anymore, and only Miles had had the patience and the perseverance to stay with him.”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold

“Miles saw him as a grief-stricken recluse, hiding from the world while he mourned his dead wife. Maybe that was the way everyone saw him. But Annie’s death had not created the condition; it had merely emphasized it.”
― Terry Brooks, Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold