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1 " I know little of magic, Lady,' he said haltingly. 'I am but a woodcutter's son, and there is much that is not given to men to understand; but of this I am sure: there is more to things than we imagine. Beyond the stars are worlds without number, perhaps, and had I never sought to look beyond my own I should be the poorer for it. "
― Sylvia Engdahl , Enchantress from the Stars (Elana, #1)
2 " The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. "
3 " People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. "
4 " Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond? "
5 " What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away? "
6 " There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that. "
7 " It is the only happiness now possible to me, to know that all is well with you "
8 " But a light now waxed within him at the knowledge that such wonders as he had been shown could exist. "
9 " Fear isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's a natural result of aiming high. "
10 " If the price is high, that doesn’t mean that it isn’t worth paying. We’ve the freedom of the universe, and it’s a fascinating universe. You’ll see much that’s good, and you’ll never be faced with boredom. And there are great satisfactions. If we can save the people of this world from slavery, for instance "
11 " I love you—oh, how terribly I love you—but I could not live in your world for more than a little time. The stars have a hold on me; I would miss them, and I—I would be torn in two, Georyn. "
12 " Oath concerns the future, not the past. You earn its Emblem not by your success in passing exams, but by your free acceptance of the responsibility an agent must carry, your consent to the ordeal of that responsibility.” That "
13 " The Oath concerns the future, not the past. You earn its Emblem not by your success in passing exams, but by your free acceptance of the responsibility an agent must carry, your consent to the ordeal of that responsibility. "