“What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from A Knight of the Word
“We have thousands and thousands of people living homeless on the streets of our cities at the same time that we have men and women earning millions of dollars a year running companies that make products whose continued usage will ruin our health, our environment, and our values. The irony is incredible. It’s obscene.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from A Knight of the Word
“A building is a home if the people who inhabit it have memories and love and a place in the world. Otherwise, it is just a building, a shelter against the elements, and it can never be anything more.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from A Knight of the Word
“Things change. Life changes. Nothing stays the same.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from A Knight of the Word
“Everything changes with time’s passage. Only change itself is constant.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from A Knight of the Word
Terry Brooks
Born place: in Sterling, Illinois, The United States
Born date January 8, 1944
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“our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, quote from Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“he knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages. Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one,”
― Thomas Wolfe, quote from Look Homeward, Angel
“There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.”
― Dave Barry, quote from Peter and the Starcatchers
“Talk to me, Richard. It isn’t difficult. Move the teeth and agitate the tongue. Tell me news of the family. Am I superseded yet? Oh, Richard, a blush!”
― Dorothy Dunnett, quote from The Game of Kings
“His heart and mine added a rhythm all their own. We turned and turned, and with every turning we breathed a little more quickly and held on a little more tightly, and when we came back to the place we started, we stopped dancing and stood with our arms around each other, holding on as if we would never let go, not if the sky fell and the whole world came to an end.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wildwood Dancing
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