“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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“What kind of world is it that lets a thing like that happen? That lets a girl like Sue get murdered for kicks, or kids in Afghanistan starve, or baby seals get skinned alive?
-Matt Honeycutt”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Fury / Dark Reunion
“How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?”
― John Howard Griffin, quote from Black Like Me
“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, quote from Meditations
“He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting.
“You need to be more careful,” he growled. “Keep interfering in my business and you might get hurt.”
I said sweetly as I continued to Jesse's room, “The last man who swatted me like that is rotting in his grave.”
“I have no doubt about it.” His voice was more satisfied then contrite.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Iron Kissed
“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
― Henry Miller, quote from Tropic of Cancer
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