"The Tombs of Atuan" Quotes
A young priestess discovers her true power and challenges the oppressive traditions of her society.
fantasy | 180 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I will keep no secrets from you, for the price of them is always too high.
When I was small, I never thought about secrets. But I came to hate them as I grew up.
To be a wizard is to be a human being.
The life that is lived in a closed world is not a human life in a world at all.
Death's gift is freedom and return, to the earth and to the sky.
The world is so big – if you wanted to hide something, you could hide it in the world.
It was not only that she didn’t know what to do. She didn’t know what she wanted to do.
The past is a very good place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy.
To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.
