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Terence Dean Brooks is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two film novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has sold over 21 million copies of his books in print. He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. January 1944
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The Black Unicorn
The Black Unicorn
Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks: 26 quotes5 likes

Famous Terry Brooks Quotes

“It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.”

Terry Brooks

Source: Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace

“Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.
Visions born of hope give birth to our success.
What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.”

Terry Brooks

“There is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.”

Terry Brooks book Armageddon's Children

Source: Armageddon's Children

“Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.”

Terry Brooks A Princess of Landover

Source: A Princess of Landover

“Evil contained is not evil destroyed.”

Terry Brooks book The Elfstones of Shannara

Source: The Elfstones of Shannara

Terry Brooks Quotes about life

“If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.”

Terry Brooks book The Elf Queen of Shannara

The Elf Queen Of Shannara
Source: The Elf Queen of Shannara

“We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.”

Terry Brooks

“What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from… For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.”

Terry Brooks book A Knight of the Word

A Knight of the Word

“If you think that Man is free to build a new life while the rest of the world drifts by, then you do not know anything of history!”

Terry Brooks book The Sword of Shannara

The Sword of Shannara, Cap 2

“Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events—they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn’t have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don’t even notice at first, and then one day it’s there. You wake up and you just don’t have the fire anymore.”

Terry Brooks

The Elf Queen Of Shannara

Terry Brooks Quotes about thinking

“You think that Man can start again, do you, Shea? Well you might be quite surprised to learn that some things never change, and that the dangers of power are always present, even to a race that almost obliterated itself.”

Terry Brooks book The Sword of Shannara

The Sword of Shannara, Cap 2

“We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two.”

Terry Brooks book Bearers of the Black Staff

Bearers of the Black Staff

“You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.”

Terry Brooks book The Tangle Box

The Tangle Box

Terry Brooks Quotes

“Who would you be but who you are?”

Terry Brooks book The Black Unicorn

Source: The Black Unicorn

“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger. Travel too far that road and the way is lost.”

Terry Brooks book The Elfstones of Shannara

Source: The Elfstones of Shannara

“We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.”

Terry Brooks The Druid of Shannara

Source: The Druid of Shannara

“What you write chooses you.”

Terry Brooks

“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.”

Terry Brooks

Source: Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life

“You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.”

Terry Brooks The Wishsong of Shannara

Source: The Wishsong of Shannara

“Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations.
Their right to be free men,
Their desire to live in peace,
Their courage to seek out truth,
Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.”

Terry Brooks book The Sword of Shannara

Source: The Sword of Shannara

“Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.”

Terry Brooks book The Black Unicorn

Source: The Black Unicorn

“The trick of course was not to go just anywhere, but to go where they might accomplish something useful.”

Terry Brooks

Cap 6
The Scions Of Shannara

“What you need to do is take control of things. Don't wait for events to catch up with you; go and meet them head-on!”

Terry Brooks

ibid
The Scions Of Shannara

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