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The Measure of the Magic

Terry Brooks

Top 10 Best Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

“you had to settle for what you were given and be grateful.”

“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.”

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Book Keywords:

future, fragile, life, death, choices-and-consequences

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