Quotes from Terry Goodkind

We all have to die, Johnrock—every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it's the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance.

Darken Rahl shook his fists to the sky. "No!

Evil was not one large entity, but a ceaseless torrent of small wrongs left unchallenged, until they festered into monsters.

The sweltering darkness and vast weight of the surrounding silence seemed as eternal as death itself.

Sometimes it is easier to make a decision if you aren't burdened with the knowledge of history.

They think they are smart and powerful because they have contrived to use my gift to put up the boundary to lure us to this place. What they have actually done is to attract lightning, and that lightning is about to strike them down.

Like it or not, the aggressor makes the rules. You must play by them, or you will surely die by them.

I also brought some berries." She pulled out a cloth bundle. "I thought you might like something sweet. Can I share them with you?" He eyed her up and down. "I guess you're small enough, you couldn't eat that many.

It is the first responsibility of a friend to provide a shoulder to cry on.

I have always known, in a thousand little ways, that you were more than you claimed to be, that you were a special person. I have always been honored to have you as my friend.

When he died, he told himself, he would have all eternity to rest. If he wanted to live, if he wanted others to live, it was going to take effort.

Like it or not, the aggressor makes the rules.

You don't have to get wet to cross a river.

Some are simply blind to the truth and fight for the lies they hear.

Nothing is ever easy.

Darkness began to gather, the magic of the scream taking the very light away, pulling the darkness as it was pulling the wind. Light and dark moved around the Mother Confessor as she released ancient magic into the scream.

don't be a soldier in this silent army of fools.

First Rule: people would believe any lie, either because they wanted to believe it was true, or because they feared it was.

It wasn't possible to reason with people who were irrational. That was what made irrational people so profoundly dangerous.

Admitting defeat established a mental state of resignation that made it certain.

Michael often said that information was the coin of power, and that it was not a coin to be spent frivolously.

Tyranny cannot endure forever. By its very nature it rots everything it rules, including itself.

Piensa en la solución, no en el problema.

Kahlan knew that people in fear for their own lives sometimes tried to shift attention away from themselves by offering another to the wolves. Worse, she also knew that there were bitter people devoted to the morbid ideal of the perpetual cannibalism of appeasement that they defined as peace.