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The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3) QUOTES

The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3) QUOTES

1 " Love supplies a kind of strength that can withstand even death. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

2 " We are friends, Brin, and friends do for each other what they see needs to be done,” the girl had explained in the late hours of the previous night when all talk had drifted into weary whispers. “Friendship is a thing sensed inwardly as much as a thing pledged openly. One feels friendship and becomes bound by it. It was this that drew Whisper to me and gained me his loyalty. I loved him as he loved me, and each of us sensed that in the other. I have sensed it with you as well. We are to be friends, all of us, and if we are to be friends, then we must share both good and bad in our friendship. Your needs become mine. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

3 " Druid fortress "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

4 " friends do for each other what they see needs to be done, "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

5 " trained army. The "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

6 " Perhaps it was inevitable that all learning, whether born of good or bad intention, whether used to give life or to take life away, must come to light at some point in time. Perhaps "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

7 " It’s the age-old tale of complacency, Shea.” The tall warrior sighed deeply and stretched as he rose. “We may be standing on the brink of the greatest war in a thousand years, but no one wants to accept the fact. Everyone gets in the same rut—let a few take care of the gates to the city while the rest forget and go back to their homes. It becomes a habit—depending on a few to protect the rest. And then one day … the few are not enough, and the enemy is within the city—right through the open gates … "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

8 " Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for long.” Again "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

9 " Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

10 " Typical bungling officials, elected by the disinterested people to juggle the ball until it can be passed on to some other fool. I could tell five minutes after I opened my mouth that they thought I was crazy. They don’t see the danger until the sword is at their own throats—then they scream for assistance from those of us who knew it all along. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

11 " Again he trailed off into ominous silence. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

12 " Truisms, my young friend, are the useless children of hindsight. Well, "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

13 " As with all things evil, he waited until the balance of hatred, envy, greed—the human failings common to all the races—outweighed the goodness and kindness, and then he struck. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

14 " Friendship is a thing sensed inwardly as much as a thing pledged openly. One feels friendship and becomes bound by it. "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)

15 " But Flick did not feel that his brother was entirely rational in his analysis of the Prince of Leah. Leah was one of the few remaining monarchies in the Southland, and Shea was an outspoken advocate of decentralized government, an opponent of absolute power. Nevertheless, he claimed friendship with the heir to a monarch’s throne—facts which in Flick’s opinion seemed entirely inconsistent "

― Terry Brooks , The Sword of Shannara Trilogy (Shannara, #1-3)