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21 " I cannot see the future, but I can sense its possibilities. I sense now that what I am telling you is the truth. But truth, like magic, can have different meanings. It is not an absolute. It does not always come about as we think it will. "
― Terry Brooks , The Measure of the Magic (Legends of Shannara, #2)
22 " After all, it was like that for all living things—they could never know everything they wished to know. That would never change. "
23 " What she heard was a deep and pervasive silence. "
24 " The best defense was your own, and you should never rely on chance or other people. "
25 " Humans were still possessed of the same weaknesses that had brought about their destruction in the old days. Theirs was a race destined to be short-lived. They would find new ways to destroy themselves or to enable the demons and their servants to destroy them. "
26 " You lived the life you were given, good or bad. "
27 " Perhaps you should remember that the road runs both ways. "
28 " It didn’t hurt to consider things that might one day be. Or even things that might never be. "
29 " But sharing the uncertainty and danger made it more manageable than it would have been otherwise "
30 " One kiss did not create a lifetime relationship. One moment did not define everything that would happen in the future. "
31 " Moonlight flooded through the open window, illuminating a bed, a chest at its foot, and a small table and chair. There was nothing else, and what remained was splintered and broken and empty of anything useful. Bones from another life, the skeleton of better times—it made her cry all over again. "
32 " (...) you don’t know what you can or can’t do until you are forced to find out. "
33 " He knew how to tell a lie when it was needed and a greater good would be served. "