“The really terrible thing about being young is the triviality”

“It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give. ”

“You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.”

“Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.”

“But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”

“This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

“The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.”