Top 300 Terry Goodkind Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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.”

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252. “Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his chin. I will have to admit though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.”

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253. “She had lived her whole life on shifting quicksand, where reason and the intellect were not to be trusted, where only faith was valid, and blind faith was sacred. She, herself, had enforced mindless conformity to that empty evil.”

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254. “It is not a weakness, child, to be a victim.”

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255. “The time for desperation is upon us. Let’s play.” – Zedd.”

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256. “No amount of telling is worth doing it once.”

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257. “If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.”

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258. “War Wizards don’t give up. They find a way around any obstacle, even if that way results in their own death. He called the way of the wizard the dance with death.”

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259. “I have to do this, Merrit. I trust you to take care with my life, but if I lose it in the attempt, then I will have died trying to save all life and I don’t want you to blame yourself. This is worth doing. I’d rather die trying to preserve the value of life than watch it all end because I failed to do what only I can.” – Magda Searus.”

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260. “She had thought she could make a difference. She had thought she could drive back the advancing horde – by the sheer weight of her will, if need be. It was arrogance on her part. The forces of freedom were lost.”

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261. “You’ve a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don’t know how important fussing is.”

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262. “Get your priorities straight, young man. When a victim is staring at a blade that has just plunged through his chest, the last thing on his mind is criticism about the lack of ornamentation on your hilt.”

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263. “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.”

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

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265. “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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266. “We all have to die, Johnrock – every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it’s the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance.”

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267. “People whose magic could affect others in an overt manner didn’t need to bite, he imagined, nor would they allow themselves to be held captive.”

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268. “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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269. “Duty?” Kahlan wiped a hand across her face. “Harold, you can’t blindly follow that woman’s whim. The route to life and liberty exists only through reason. She may be queen, but reason can be your only true sovereign. To fail to use reason in this, to fail to think, is intellectual anarchy.”

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270. “This was the threshold to the place of the dead.”

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271. “He wanted to know things, not reveal them.”

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

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274. “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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275. “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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276. “His word alone stood between Kahlan and oblivion.”

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

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

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

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

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282. “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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283. “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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284. “After last night, he felt that the first part, his fantasy of being with her, was just an empty wish.”

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285. “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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286. “The dead must heed them.”

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287. “We have a responsibility to life. The living should be our only concern. Since it is the Sword of Truth – a weapon created to fight for the truth – people won’t have reason to expect that it could also actually be the key to the power of Orden. Quinn, you know how dangerous the power of Orden is. Used in the wrong way. it very well could breach the veil and destroy the world of life. We have to do everything in our power to see to it that such a thing never comes to pass.”

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288. “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.”

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289. “She remembered then what had been at the back of her mind. Barracus had told her that the veil to the world of the dead had glowed a strange green when he passed through it. He had told her that when he had gone through that green wall, that was how he knew that he had crossed over into the underworld. He had called it the green breadth of the spirits.”

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290. “Even without the drizzle and approaching darkness, it was a miserable time to be digging up dead people.”

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291. “I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.”

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292. “Darken Rahl, as had his father before him, considered women merely vessels for the man’s seed, the dirt it grew in, unworthy of higher recognition.”

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293. “I hate telling that story to people who’ve been struggling for years.”

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294. “Life connects us all to magic, as illustrated through the design of the Grace. So, for a Confessor, I don’t need a gifted person, just a living one.”

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295. “Standing there, chisel and mallet in hand, gazing at the statue that was his vision in stone, was a moment when Richard could savor the supreme achievement of having his creation exist exactly as he had originally conceived it. For this singular moment in time, it was complete, and it was his alone.”

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296. “The power of Orden predates the star shift.”

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297. “Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either,” Naja said, “and that doesn’t involve magic.”

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298. “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.”

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299. “When you hear the word ‘tyranny of magic’ as we heard from Elder Caldell, you will know that it is the calling card of killers. Don’t be fooled by their platitudes that is for the common good. Their real power is to strip us of our abilities so that they may easily conquer and rule us.”

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300. “That smile might have been on his lips, but it was not in his eyes.”

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