Ursula K. Le Guin

'A Wizard of Earthsea reads like the retelling of a tale first told centuries ago, and whose twists and turns have been handed down through generations of storytellers. It is timeless. . . . Le Guin's words are magical. Drink this magic up. Drown in it. Dream it' David Mitchell, author of CLOUD ATLAS '[This] trilogy made me look at the world in a new way, imbued everything with a magic that was so much deeper than the magic I'd encountered before then. This was a magic of words, a magic of true speaking' Neil Gaiman Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle Darkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world and its wizards are losing their magic. Despite being wearied with age, Ged Sparrowhawk - Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord -- embarks on a daring, treacherous journey, accompanied by Enlad's young Prince Arren, to discover the reasons behind this devastating pattern of loss. Together they will sail to the farthest reaches of their world -- even beyond the realm of death - as they seek to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.

The Third Book of Earthsea

The Farthest Shore

taylor miles hopkins

…named him son of myth, inheritor of dreams.

There is a certain bleakness in finding hope where one expected certainty. 

And the weaving of spells is itself interwoven with the earth and the water, the winds and the fall of light of the place where it is cast.

Death and life are the same thing—like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same.... They can be neither separated, nor mixed

…but the truth is we do not know what life is or what death is. To claim power over what you do not understand is not wise, nor is the end of it likely to be good."

loisesya

“Het leven ontspruit aan de dood, de dood ontspruit aan het leven; tegendelen die smachtend naar elkander uitzien, elkander het aanzijn schenken en steeds weer herboren worden. En samen met hen wordt alles herboren, de bloesems aan de appelboom, de sterren aan de hemel. In leven is dood, in dood is herleven. Wat is immers leven zonder dood, een onveranderd, altijddurend, eeuwig leven? Wat is het anders dan dood... dood zonder herleven?" 

Don't worry about the sharks, Arren. They're chill

Boothby

But the water’s mild for swimming, and I have an understanding with the sharks.

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