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The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2) QUOTES

The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2) QUOTES

1 " Travel down that road far enough and you forget entirely where you came from. The journey becomes the destination in a twisted sort of way. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

2 " (...) a pond that was little more than a depression in the earth through which a small stream meandered like a lost child. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

3 " You think about how fragile life is, about how quickly it goes by, how quickly things become lost. You take life for granted most of the time. You live it in the moment and you don’t think a lot about the future because the future seems a long way off. But when people you love die, suddenly the future seems a whole lot closer and very uncertain. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

4 " He had never come back to anything. The past was never his concern. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

5 " They were like sheep, these humans—ready to follow, eager to be led, happy to be told what was needed. He could see it in their faces and hear it in their hushed voices as the crowd noise slowly diminished. He could feel it in the vibration of the night air.
They were primed and ready for something magical. They expected no less. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

6 " Then, Pan, when that’s done, maybe I can think about us. In the right way, the way I would like to—not just because of last night or some other night but because there might be a whole lot of nights, maybe even a lifetime. I can think about it because then there will be a future that isn’t measured in hours or days. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

7 " if you wanted something done, it was never a good idea to rely on others. Others were never as committed to achieving your goals as you were. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

8 " He wanted to tell himself or maybe even her that he would never understand women, but he had a feeling he wasn’t the first man to formulate this opinion and very likely wouldn’t be the last and that it really didn’t matter anyway. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

9 " What do you care?” Arik Siq asked. “Who your people were matters hardly at all. Who they are now is what matters. Who you are.” “Your history is sometimes a way of understanding your present,” Pan replied. “You are your history. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

10 " like that.” “I can’t imagine my life without you, Prue. You are my best friend; you always will be. You are another part of me, a part that when missing leaves me feeling incomplete. I want us to be together again. I want us to get back what we can of our old life, even if it’s not here. Will you wait for me so that we can try to do that? "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

11 " It takes everything I’ve got to offer, but not more than I wish to give. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

12 " ... you don't know what you can or can't do until you are forced to find out. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

13 " I was thinking about choices and how we make them. About how some are so easy and some so hard. I was thinking how we make some because we want to and some because we have to. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

14 " Keep talking, and you'll eventually sound like a complete idiot instead of just a half-wit. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

15 " There was no hurry. Time was something he had as much of as he needed. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

16 " But chances were few and far between in their world, and mostly you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

17 " A strange hush descended, and even time itself seemed to stop moving. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

18 " Time didn’t have meaning for him. Time had come to a standstill, the world stopped where it was, everything as still and immutable as the mountains and the sun in the sky. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

19 " (...) an event that had the consistency of smoke and lacked anything of substance. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)

20 " Magic works differently for different people, and there is no way of knowing how it will respond. Even those who have used it repeatedly and come to rely on it have found that it can abandon them. "

― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)