“If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come. This is the essence of magic, which does not create but summons.”

“and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”

“I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”

“The written word is far more powerful than simply a reminder: it re-creates the past in the present, and gives us, not the familiar remembered thing, but the glittering intensity of the summoned-up hallucination.”

“When considering these matters, the dilemma inevitably arises - albeit only for a moment - that a shorter way to the Islamic order would be by taking power… This is mere temptation. History does not relate any true revolution which came from power. All began with education and meant in essence a moral summons.”

“Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.”

““It is not right to want to die,” the Summoner said….“For the very old, the very ill, it may be. But life is given us. Surely it’s wrong not to hold and treasure that great gift!”
“Death also is given us,” said the king.”

“I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do—like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school.”

“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”

“The magic you need is the right you.”