Death Gate.
Knowledge of a worlds out there bigger than you are; of other cultures, other people...
Wise words; said without thinking, perhaps, but with much thought, enriched with the truth of emotion and realisation, which may be one of the greatest truths of all.
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have made me fall in love; with the man, the characters, the story, the journey, and the truths, morals and emotions.
"Yes," said Haplo quietly, "I understand. Sometimes I'd like to go back to the way things used to be in my life. I never thought I'd say that. I didn't have much, but what I did have, I didn't value. Trying to get something else. I let what was important get away. And when I got what I wanted, it turned out to be worthless without the other. Now I might lose it all. Or maybe I've already lost it past finding."
And it happens to us all, all too often.
Why do we never learn.
I've always found it immensely sad, that people never seem to realise folly until much is lost and beyond redemption. And even though it's not always too late to repent or to realise the truth and change, usually it's too late to make amends to those who have suffered and lost in the process.
"Change - even good change - is hard. Very hard indeed."
Sometimes, it's just because it's hard to move out of a comfort zone where everything is familiar, which one is used to.
And sometimes, it's because we're trapped in a prison of our own making - "Our prison walls were pride; our iron bars were fear."
But I guess, corny as it sounds, through it all, love and hope still triumphs.
Perhaps it will.
One more book to go.
:11:10 PM: :sugah~plum
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