“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”

“I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.”

“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower o...”

“He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill because they must.' 'That is why nothing can resist us. Only one thing in...”

“She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.”

“You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfh...”

“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.”