The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him that gift that only a friend can give, the proof of unshaken, unshakeable trust.

Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.

The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.