Shirty, the slightly aggressive bearTerry Brooks

∞01:52 am, by lostinthesounds ∩32

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. …Then you have a choice. You can either give in to what you’re feeling, just say “okay, enough is enough” and be done with it, or you can fight it. You can accept that every day you’re alive you’re going to have to face it down, that you’re going to have to say to yourself that you don’t care what you feel, that it doesn’t matter what happens anyway, that you’re going to do what you have to because otherwise you’re defeated and life doesn’t have any real purpose left. When you can do that, little Wren, when you can accept the wearing down and the eroding, then you can do anything. How did I manage to keep going out nights? I just told myself I didn’t matter all that much - that those in here mattered more. You know something? It’s not so hard really. You just have to get past the fear.

The Elf Queen of Shannara by Terry Brooks

∞01:56 am, by lostinthesounds ∩47

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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.

The Elf Queen of Shannara by Terry Brooks

∞07:30 am, by lostinthesounds ∩4

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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.

I think maybe we learn a few things each time that we don’t forget. A few things that stick with us. It’s just hard to pass those things on to those who come after us because if they didn’t live through it, they don’t view it the same way we do. If you don’t experience something firsthand, it’s a lot harder to accept.

Bearers of the Black Staff by Terry Brooks

∞07:13 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩7

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When she cried, he would say, “There is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who you are. They tell you what is important. Don’t ever be ashamed of them.

Armageddon’s Children by Terry Brooks

∞12:58 am, by lostinthesounds ∩14

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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.

The Tangle Box by Terry Brooks

∞07:39 pm, by lostinthesounds

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