Quotes from Terry Goodkind

Keep your vision all-inclusive, never allowing it to lock on any one thing. That was the meaning of the starburst symbol: look everywhere at once, see nothing to the exclusion of all else—don't allow the enemy to direct your vision, or you will see what he wishes you to see. He will then come at you as you become bewildered, looking for his attack, and you will lose.

Good intentions, being kind, can encourage the lazy, and motivate sound minds to become indolent. The more help you give them, the more help they need. As long as your kindness is open-ended, they never gain discipline, dignity, or self-reliance. Your kindness impoverishes their humanity.

Like hounds at a feast, people gather round the table of tyranny, eager for tasty scraps tossed on the floor. 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. "Tyrants make the envious comfortable with their greed.

It was always a good idea to bring food when going to see Zedd.

stay his arm. "Dalton, don't! It's bad luck to kill a raven!" Her intervention, and the bird unexpectedly ducking, caused him to miss an easy kill.

As with all truth, there would be those who refused to believe it and would not even look at the proof.

to think of the solution—and not the problem.

But people rarely believe the truth when they see it and less so when they don't want to, and that makes the position of Seeker a dangerous one.

Truth was only a shifting fog to them, to be burned off by the light of their convoluted reasoning. Followers

of his past captors. Any warrior would. He

People who for whatever reason don't want to see the truth can be acutely hostile to it and shrill in their denunciation of it. They frequently turn their venomous antagonism on whoever dares to point out that truth.

Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are a virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. "Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason's light. "Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason, through this rule. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

It was like finding the other half of myself and being complete, whole, for the first time in my life.

What are you babbling about?" one of the other Sisters asked, not concerned with what they saw as a dusty aphorism.

Part of our job is to hope to teach people to act in the right way, so that when the test comes, they will do what must be done.

It should hurt, shouldn't it? Shouldn't it hurt to be ripped in half? But it didn't. It didn't hurt the least little bit. Cold. She felt only cold. But the warm rope of her guts laying against her face felt good. Warm. She took comfort in the warmth.

Legs were suddenly all about them.

He didn't know anything about wizards, or magic, but no one would send Kahlan through the boundary, through the underworld, without a powerful reason. He wondered what could be that important.

A lot of people merely marked time until a holiday, until they could go on vacation, until they could retire, always waiting for their life to begin.

Truth didn't wear a tongue smooth; lies did.

Don't shed tears over those already in the ground, until after you have brought vengeance to those who put them there. There will be time enough, then.

darkness. "I expect that you shall forever worship that to which you no longer will have any connection, or any possibility of a connection, that you will forever pray for an afterlife with the Creator in the spirit world, but you will be forever cut off from any world but your own. In that distant world you will have your own lives, and after you die you will be dead. Your spirits will no longer exist. Your souls will extinguish along with your lives.

Little Miss Magic, here, goaded him into using his gift on her so that she could capture him. We put him down in the pit for safekeeping.

Not my best work, but it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.