A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle Series Book 1)

We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand

outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.