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“In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.”
― Terry Goodkind, The Third Kingdom

“As long as we have choices in life and use our heads, there is always the possibility of turning around the worst situation.”
― Terry Goodkind, The Third Kingdom

“In her eyes he saw something that attracted him more than anything else. Intelligence. He saw it flaring there, burning in her, and through it all he felt an overriding sense of her integrity. Richard felt safe.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

“I’m sorry, Lord Rahl, but I don’t think you are the kind of man who would want me to tell you anything other than the truth.” Richard stared into Samantha’s dark eyes. “No, I wouldn’t. Only the truth can help us.”
― Terry Goodkind, The Third Kingdom

“You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself.”
― Terry Goodkind, The Omen Machine

“Richard clenched the strip in his fist. “It’s some kind of riddle. I hate riddles.”
― Terry Goodkind, The Omen Machine

“He remembered Zedd telling him that old age meant that the only thing he really knew was that he would never know it all, much less know enough.”
― Terry Goodkind, The Third Kingdom

“I love her too much to keep her from leaving,”
― Terry Goodkind, The Third Kingdom

“Powerful people who lose power do not feel anguish and heartache like a jilted lover.”
― Terry Goodkind, The Third Kingdom

“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.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“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.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

“That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.”
― Terry Goodkind, Soul of the Fire

“what is commonly thought luck is often merely the result of incessant practice.”
― Terry Goodkind, Soul of the Fire

“When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going.”
― Terry Goodkind, Stone of Tears

“It's only some rice and beans Captain. It's not like I'm giving you Cara's hand in marriage." - Richard”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“We can’t live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.”
― Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor: The Legend of Magda Searus - A Sword of Truth Prequel

“You either had to fight evil as you encountered it, or evil would come to control your life.”
― Terry Goodkind, Severed Souls

“Nicci hugged her back. “You do know, don’t you, that I also love you?”
― Terry Goodkind, Severed Souls

“I think old age is nature’s way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world.”
― Terry Goodkind, Severed Souls

“Since the dawn of man, there have always been people bent on harming others. There have been periods of peace and enlightenment, and there have been dark times, but through it all, mankind survived. That cycle has repeated itself over and over. It wasn’t always easy, and despite those who would have it otherwise, life went on.”
― Terry Goodkind, Severed Souls

“It’s so good to see you,” she whispered privately in the midst of the crowd. When she held him, there was no crowd, there was only him. There was always only him in her heart and soul.”
― Terry Goodkind, Severed Souls

“His word alone stood between Kahlan and oblivion.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“Everyone makes mistakes. How a person deals with their mistakes is a mark of their character.” ========== Naked Empire (Goodkind, Terry)”
― Anonymous

“There are times when there is no choice but to act immediately; even then it must be with your best judgment, using all your experience and everything you do know.”
― Terry Goodkind, Naked Empire

“That smile might have been on his lips, but it was not in his eyes.”
― Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor: The Legend of Magda Searus - A Sword of Truth Prequel

“Richard didn’t trust Minister Chanboor. The man’s tongue was too smooth. Truth didn’t wear a tongue smooth; lies did.”
― Terry Goodkind, Soul of the Fire

“There is more to being in love than just jumping into bed, you know. Like just being close, in one another's arms.”
― Terry Goodkind, Temple of the Winds

“He wanted to know things, not reveal them.”
― Terry Goodkind, Severed Souls

“He had sometimes looked into her eyes and whispered to himself how bewitching she was, as if she weren’t there hearing him, as if he were all alone looking upon some exceptional specimen rather than his wife.”
― Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor: The Legend of Magda Searus - A Sword of Truth Prequel

“Richard’s mind was filled with the flow and form of the dance with death, the way of a war wizard. He was lost in that dance he had come to know so well.”
― Terry Goodkind, Severed Souls