Top 300 Terry Goodkind Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Don’t give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. – Councilman Sadler.”

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252. “I want you to use me to create a Confessor.”

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253. “Your forces will try to use shields, but I can tell you from experience that shields don’t work. Shields key off life. They have nothing to latch on to with the dead.”

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254. “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.”

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255. “They don’t, exactly. The threat of their intervention makes it unnecessary. Wizards call it the paradox of power: if you have power, and are ready, able, and willing to use it, you don’t need to exercise your power.”

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256. “This was life as it should be lived – proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man. This was the rightful exaltation of the individual, the nobility of the human spirit.”

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257. “Surprise is sometimes the best advantage a warrior can have.”

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258. “The chicken thing let out a whispering cackle.”

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259. “Franca smiled to herself for a time before she spoke. “My heart belongs to someone.”

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260. “Really? A Confession flower. Why would it be called that? Because a confession is a revelation of the truth. Truth is pure. White is pure. Thus the name.”

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261. “Because I need it to be mine alone while I carve it. I need solitude with it as I shape it. When I’m finished, then the world can have it, but when I work on it, it is to be my vision and mine alone. I wish no one to see it before it is finished.”

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262. “Like all power, it simply exists. It’s the user who determines what use it will be put to.”

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263. “But you know how Richard feels. He thinks it would be wrong – more than that, he thinks it would be irresponsible to give in to such a wish when reason tells him he must not.”

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264. “Blood erupted in great throbbing gouts from a severed artery at the side of his neck. His open windpipe blew clouds of red mist as he struggled to breathe.”

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265. “Desperately, his mind raced as he cried, trying to make time go backward, to do it again differently, to ignore the voices, to keep hold of her hand, to save her.”

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266. “This is how tyrants win the will of the people: with lies.”

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267. “You are not destined for anything. You make your own destiny.”

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268. “Richard clenched the strip in his fist. “It’s some kind of riddle. I hate riddles.”

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269. “That is what we believe in and what we are fighting for. The right to the joy of life. The right to our own life. The right to love.”

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270. “Sometimes lunatics are so driven, they can take the whole world into madness with them.”

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271. “He’d often said that keeping things to himself was a matter of survival. Barracus had often told her that if she was doing something important she shouldn’t tell people anything they didn’t need to know. He lived his life by that rule. In fact, he often wouldn’t tell Magda about things he thought she didn’t need to know. Like why he killed himself.”

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272. “As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn’t curse darkness. You needed death to define life.”

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273. “I hate magic,” Berdine muttered. “It makes no sense.”

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274. “Your only chance is to let the truth escape.”

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275. “The Spiritist is said to be a dangerous woman.”

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276. “Her life was hers to live by right. She belonged to no one.”

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277. “Though it hadn’t been in his mind, and even though he would not entertain such an offer, he was nevertheless disappointed to find she thought the idea repulsive.”

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278. “The woman had a voice that could unwind a good rope.”

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279. “Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It’s common knowledge.”

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280. “But who I was, who you loved, no longer exists. I have passed on. In your world, only my memory can exist. Your loyalty to me because of that memory is a part of life, but it can become disloyalty to yourself if you hold it so closely that it crowds out the rest of life.”

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281. “My mother always said that if you predicted rain long enough, sooner or later you would get wet and be proven right.”

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282. “The reason, as I had learned from my father, is that there is no certainty in death. Because there is no beginning or end, there is no way to measure how long your time.”

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283. “Faith itself, you see, is the key-the magic wand that they wave over the bubbling brew they have concocted to render it ‘self-evident’.”

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284. “It was important for a person not to let their body or mind become slow and dull. Oba believed it was important to learn new things. He believed it was important to grow. He thought it was important for a person to use what they had learned. That was how people grew.”

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285. “The tightly focused battle was an orgy of slaughter. Limbs, heads, and parts of bodies from men and women alike littered the ground.”

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286. “There seemed to be some inner need in many people to believe that the world would end in some cataclysmic event. Usually in the very near future.”

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287. “When you are facing superior strength, you must use your wits.”

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288. “His word alone stood between Kahlan and oblivion.”

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

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290. “We all can be only what we are, nothing more, or less.”

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291. “At their root, the key and the Confessor both authenticate the truth. The Confessor’s power would force the subject to reveal the truth, while all of the coded alignments of the key involve proofing it against reality. Reality is truth. Therefore, both the Confessor and the key need the same formulas to initiate their ultimate function.”

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292. “I understand, Lord Rahl. Find the wizard Zedd and the sorceress Nicci and get them out so that they can heal you of the death inside you so that you can end prophecy and end the threat to the world of life now that the barrier is down.”

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293. “Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned.”

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294. “She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn’t only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything from her intelligence and courage to her wit, and the special smile she gave only to him. He would slay a dragon, if there were such a thing, just to see that smile. He knew he would never want anyone else for as long as he lived. He would rather spend the rest of his life alone than with someone else. There could be no one else.”

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

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296. “Dalton had expected it, he never failed to find it remarkable the way he had but to say a thing enough times, through enough people, and it became the popular truth, its provenance lost as it was mimicked by ordinary people who came to believe that it was their own idea – as if original thought routinely came forth from their witless minds of clay.”

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297. “Only when all must bow to the same law is every person free.”

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298. “After last night, he felt that the first part, his fantasy of being with her, was just an empty wish.”

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299. “Information is the coin of war.”

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300. “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.”

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