Terry Goodkind
Only those you trust can betray you" ~ NathanCollection: Betray
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.Collection: Uplifting
Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.Collection: Reality
Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.Collection: Eye
Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.Collection: Sometimes
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.Collection: Magic
Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.Collection: Love You
Cara burst into a hearty laugh. She clapped Richard on the back as he walked passed. "I like her, Lord Rahl. You may keep her.Collection: Laughing
Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.Collection: Book
Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.Collection: People
I am who I am; no more, no less.Collection: Who I Am
Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.Collection: Mistake
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 ConfessorCollection: Mother
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.Collection: Reality
Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learnedCollection: Emotion
Cara waggled a hand over the two of them. "It works better with your clothes off." Richard frowned. His voice came as a hoarse croak. "What?" She seemed mystified by the question. "I believe you will find such things work better without clothes." She put her hands to her hips. "I thought you would know at least that much.Collection: Believe
You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.Collection: Men
One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.Collection: Mistake
Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.Collection: Cost
If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.Collection: Thinking
Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.Collection: Believe
It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man -- what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else.Collection: Helping Others
Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.Collection: Believe
It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.Collection: Heart
When you're the leader, everything is your fault.Collection: Leader
Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.Collection: Use
To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love.Collection: Expansion
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.Collection: Believe
Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soulCollection: Cutting
You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itselfCollection: Speak
Dancing with death meant being committed to killing, committed with your heart and soul.Collection: Heart
Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.Collection: Forget
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.Collection: Honesty
Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - CaraCollection: Mistake
Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.Collection: Passion
I wish people had half the honor of dragons.Collection: Dragons
That's what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.Collection: Strong
We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.Collection: Might
Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.Collection: Favors
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.Collection: Cat
Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.Collection: Community
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 anew.Collection: Memories
Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.Collection: Betrayal
Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.Collection: Made
There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.Collection: Two Sides
Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.Collection: Enemy
Wizard's Sixth Rule The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.Collection: Wizards
...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.Collection: Lying
Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no commitment that overrides that one. Cut. Cut from the void, not from bewilderment. Cut the enemy as quickly and directly as possible. Cut decisively, resolutely. Cut into the enemy’s strength. Flow through the gaps in his guard. Cut him. Cut him down utterly. Don’t allow him a breath. Crush him. Cut him without mercy to the depths of his spirit." -Richard RahlCollection: Crush