Quotes from Terry Goodkind

Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.

He put the box in Kahlan's lap. As she picked it up, she gave him the biggest smile he had ever seen. Before he even knew what he had done, he had leaned over and given Kahlan a quick kiss. Her eyes went wide, and she didn't kiss him back, but the feel of her lips shocked him into realizing what he had done. Oh. Sorry, he said. She laughed. Forgiven.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.

It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage. - Richard

Truth has advocates who seek understanding, Richard said. Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through faith. Savage force is faith's obedient servant. Violence on an apocalyptic scale can only be born of faith because reason, by its very nature, disarms senseless cruelty. Only faith thinks to justify it.

Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. - Richard

The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less

You mean that it's not only what he does that makes him dangerous, but also what he feels justified in doing?

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.

Do you hate me because I have magic? Of course not. Do you love me despite my magic? He thought a minute. No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroyed me.

When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.

But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created a new.

You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don't value freedom until it is taken away.

Nicci looked up at Kahlan. "Knives are not my talent." "It's not hard," Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci's hand. "When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don't like.