Book: A Wizard Of Earthsea

I must sail where fate has destined me and turn my back to the beautiful shores.

Although I serve you, I am still not your servant.

Light is a force, a huge force, thanks to which we exist, but it exists on its own not only when we need it. Sunlight and moonlight are time, and time is light. Sunlight, measured in days and years, is life.

The disputes between magicians have no end.

They say that in the Limits a rule is a rule, but not the same rule. This is a true saying, I know it. I learned a lot of wonderful magical formulas on Rock, which have no power here or act at random.

The people here reminded him of the inhabitants of the Northern Valley on Gonta, to whom he had become accustomed since childhood, but they were even poorer. With them he felt light and free, as he never could have felt at the courts of the rich nobility.

All he knew was agonizing fear and the certainty that he must go forward and fulfill what was destined to him.

A person must know where he is ultimately going, but he is unlikely to know this unless he looks back and returns to the origins and retains these origins in memory.

- Only light conquers darkness, only light and nothing else.

It is human nature to fear precisely what he does not know.

There was no gaiety in her, this mistress of the castle, although she smiled often.

Gold is highly valued in Osskil, but it does not contribute to good, friendly relations either among the Osskil people or among the dragons, who are very partial to gold.

The wisdom of man consists in never moving away from living beings, regardless of whether they have speech or not.

Since that night on Rock Hill, his heart has turned away from fame and empty vanity as much as it longed for it before.