Quotes from Terry Goodkind

There is nothing that exists that has only one side, even a piece of paper thin as it is has two sides.

And then, just before the man reached him, there was a hard impact to the air, like a clap of thunder with no sound. The violence of it made every joint in his body cry out in sharp pain. Dust lifted around them, spreading outward in a ring.

Rational moral choices are based on the value of life, not a consensus. A consensus can't make the sun rise at midnight, nor can it change a wrong into a right, or the other way around. If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand other men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

But as much as he wanted to know the answers, it was against his nature to force someone to tell something she didn't want to. His father had raised him to respect another person's right to keep his own secrets.

Winter was coming; the

Not everyone will wag their tail for a tyrant, but most will, if he first makes them salivate with hate and gives license to their covetous impulses by making them feel it is only their due. Many would rather take than earn.

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.

The most important rule there is, the Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.

LONG AFTER DARK ALEX WAS STILL WAITING. He worried that they might have hatched some new plan. A thousand different terrors ran through his mind as he waited. As the night wore on, there might have hatched some new plan. A thousand different terrors ran through his mind as he waited. As the night wore on, there was nothing he could do but wait.

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. "We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence. Between those thoughts, there is nothing, simply the body, waiting for our thoughts to make us who we are.

Richard looked around, but didn't see any. He knew that didn't mean anything. If a boundary warden didn't want to be seen, he could be standing on your foot and you wouldn't be able to find him.

Rachel giggled and hugged her arms to his sides. "Look, Richard." She put a foot out toward him, showing off a shoe. "Chase brought down a buck. He said it was a mistake, because it was too big, so he traded it to a man, but all the man had to trade were these shoes, and this cloak. Aren't they wonderful? And Chase says I can keep them.

People more and more view law and order, and view the police who are representatives of law and order, as oppressors rather than protectors.

The host on the TV was fawning over an actress who thought she was brilliant because she happened to have been born beautiful and read lines written by other people. It amazed Alex what qualified a person for being worthy of adulation.

for the right person, either would be a tool. for the wrong person, either could be a weapon of evil. it is the mind behind the tool that matters.

it's no help to be ignorant of the truth....

that girl has a temper. a very bad temper. and you don't? richard asked. not like hers.

The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

Some truths, after a certain point, could be felt viscerally, and at that point everything clicked with the finality of a dead bolt on a prison of truth.

Your actions, not your feelings, speak the truth of your intent." Richard

Wizards first Rule: People will believe a lie because they want it to be true or because they're afraid it MIGHT be true

Come to me, my love. I want you very badly right now." He nodded and started to reach for the Agiel on the side table. Denna touched his wrist. "Tonight, I want you without the Agiel. Please? Teach me what it's like without the pain?

Reality could seldom match the imagination, and in the imagination, the pain was real.