Child of Light Quotes

“I wonder if anyone can ever claim to be the same after being subjected to such life-altering events. Aren't you always changing, evolving in response to what you learn and experience? This isn't something you can control; it simply happens and you respond to it as best you can.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“We are not given the power to choose our fate. Fate always decides for us in the end, though we can choose the direction and make the journey. We do as much for ourselves as we can. Sometimes it is enough; sometimes it isn't. But we must try.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“We are not given the power to choose our fate. Fate always decides for us in the end, though we can choose the direction and make the journey. We do as much for ourselves as we can. Sometimes it is enough; sometimes it isn’t. But we must try; it is in the nature of our character to always try.” I stare at him, thinking through what he says.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“Industry destroys nature—through either pillaging her resources or damaging her gifts.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“So to some extent I continue to allow life to take me where it wants and to reveal what it chooses, continuing to believe that letting things work themselves out is, for now, the best way.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“Life does not give you a pass from upheavals even in the best of times. Life gives you living—which is messy and uncertain, constantly shifting your place in the world and your expectations of what waits just around the next corner.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“are connected by relationships and place and time; we are connected by shared experience. But in the end we are each our own person and ultimately alone.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“Humans—once they were born into the world—were of a different mind-set. They were determined to make their lives better not by adapting to nature, but by subjugating her. The entire history of their evolution has been centered on taking”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“We are the sum of our life’s experiences, and our bodies reveal much of what that experience has been.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“It is odd how we lead such separate lives so much of the time, keeping our thoughts to ourselves. We”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“Humans have blinded themselves to the reality of what they are doing. When you closely examine the path they have taken, you come to realize it leads directly to extinction.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“to realize it leads directly to extinction. Sooner or later nature will have no more to give them.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“from nature what they needed to improve their lives without regard for how it might damage nature herself”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“of what waits just around the next corner.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“Life does not give you a pass from upheavals even in the best of times. Life gives you living—which is messy and uncertain, constantly shifting your place in the world and your expectations”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“Fairy tales have their origins in reality, Auris. In this world, if not in the one you think you came from. Nothing comes from a void; all things have some connection to truth.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“seen into existence. Magic is invisible until applied. It is hidden within you. To bring it alive requires mastery, so that you can shape it as you want.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“Strength beyond the physical. Strength of will, determination, and intent—you have to use all three to bring things that can’t be otherwise”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“Everything happens for a reason, though we might not”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“always know what that reason is.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“given the power to choose our fate. Fate always decides for us in the end, though we can choose the direction and make the journey. We do as much for ourselves as we can. Sometimes it is enough; sometimes it isn’t. But we must try; it is in the nature of our character to always try.” I stare at him, thinking through what he says.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“We are not”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“Sometimes you have to settle for doing what you can as opposed to what you think you should.”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light

“How did we Humans come to be so disdained and marginalized that subjugating us like cattle became our future?”
― Terry Brooks, Child of Light