Sylvia Engdahl Quotes & Sayings

But as long as he kept on caring, nothing could touch the freedom of his inner thoughts. — Sylvia Engdahl

What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away? — Sylvia Engdahl

If nobody believed anything except what they understood, how limited we'd be. — Sylvia Engdahl

It's not enough just to learn what there ISN'T; we need to know what there IS. — Sylvia Engdahl

The human mind is incredible. It can do nothing without belief, yet practically anything with it. - Elana's father — Sylvia Engdahl

I know little of magic, Lady,' he said haltingly. 'I am but a woodcutter's son, and there is much that is not given to men to understand; but of this I am sure: there is more to things than we imagine. Beyond the stars are worlds without number, perhaps, and had I never sought to look beyond my own I should be the poorer for it. — Sylvia Engdahl

But a light now waxed within him at the knowledge that such wonders as he had been shown could exist. — Sylvia Engdahl

It is the only happiness now possible to me, to know that all is well with you — Sylvia Engdahl

Wherever he went he would be a stranger, for there was no home in the world for such as he. — Sylvia Engdahl

Must a man then live as his fellows live, and never reach beyond? - Georyn — Sylvia Engdahl

There are different kinds of truth. And if our kind is more mature than theirs, it's so only because we know that. — Sylvia Engdahl

It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You wouldn't consider that very admirable would you? — Sylvia Engdahl

People who love each other can no more keep from communicating than from breathing. - Elana — Sylvia Engdahl