Quotes from Terry Goodkind

Life is the future, not the past.

He is teaching them to eat those seeds," she said through clenched teeth, "out of Raina and Berdine's hands. The two of them were giggling." – Cara

Richard, Kahlan said, what about Siddin? Weselan and Savidlin will be worried sick over him. Her green eyes gazed deep into his. She leaned closer, and whispered, And we have unfinished business in the spirit house. I believe there is still an apple there we have yet to finish. Her arm tightened around his waist, and a little twist of a smile came to her lips. The shape of the smile caught his breath in his throat.

The training of a Mord-Sith takes years - to learn to handle the pain. I guess it's also why only women are Mord-Sith, men are too weak.

In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

He slipped the baldric over his head, laying the leather across his shoulder and the scabbard at his hip. Knowing the weapon a little more intimately, now, he had a new respect for it.

In this world, everyone must die. None of us has any choice in that. Our choice is how we wish to live.

When the son, a lanky young man, saw Kahlan, he fell instantly and hopelessly in love. Richard understood the feeling; nonetheless, he didn't appreciate it.

The people who most often invited trouble were the willfully ignorant who didn't want to believe trouble was possible, so they dismissed the potential for it. You couldn't be ready for what you never considered or were unwilling to consider.

Sometimes it's more important to seize the chance and do what you can even knowing that it won't likely account for everything, that it is to do nothing.

And right now you're doing it backwards. You are only concentrating on why the problem is impossible. You are not thinking of the solution.

Think of the solution, not the problem.

You can't help how you feel and I understand that. Sometimes a person can't talk their heart out of how it feels, despite how hard you try.

Freedom is never easy to keep and can easily be lost. All it takes is willful indifference.

Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you've done your job, then there aren't any of the enemy left to dispute your leader's reasons. At least not until the next war.

Such beliefs were born in man's willful refusal to use his mind, in his lust for the unearned, his wish for success without effort. Such beliefs were the embodiment of hatred for all that was good, hatred for virtue, hatred for value. It was ultimately a hatred of themselves, of life, of existence. It was that hate, that dedication to death, that was the true manifestation of evil.

Zedd truly did scowl,now, You've a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don't know how important fussing is. That be right, Adie said, Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.

Kahlan ambled toward the door. Well, my breasts aren't as large as yours Berdine. She slowed as she passed Raina. I think Raina's hands would fit mine better.

We believe in treating others as we would want to be treated.

Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing.

He knew, though, that there was no such thing as fair in life. Existence had no agenda. Life simply existed. It was up to them to fight for life to be worthwhile and good if that was what they wanted.

He is taming chipmunks." – Cara

Richard will have my hand, but you should know as well as anyone that he will not be eating out of it –and I wouldn't want him to." - Kahlan

It struck Magda as ironic that those who professed to want peace the most were quickest to use bloodshed to try to get their way.