Quotes from Terry Goodkind

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 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. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

We all can be no more, or less, than who we are.

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I wish people had half the honor of dragons.

There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.

Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

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.

Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory)

Richard started to walk away. Zedd called his name. He stopped and turned. Just be glad she cares for you as much as she does. If she didn't, she might have touched you. Richard stared back at him a long moment. I'm afraid, in a way, she already has.

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin. I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

I love you, she whispered. Richard pulled her tight against him. His fingers traced a trail down the bumps of her spine. I feel so frustrated that there aren't any better words than I love you, he said. It doesn't seem enough for the way I feel about you. I'm sorry there aren't any better words to tell you. They are words enough for me. Then, I love you, Kahlan. A thousand times, a million times, I love you. Forever.

Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle believing that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.

I'm warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.' 'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don't slay me with your magic sword!

As you learn to be other than Mord-Sith, like I learned as I grew up, you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. The reasons you like them makes the things you don't understand unimportant. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.