Terry Goodkind

Novelist

1948-05-01 – 2020-09-17

American fantasy novelist best known for creating The Sword of Truth series. His work sold millions of copies internationally and was adapted for television.

Books by Terry Goodkind

Wizard's First Rule
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Stone of Tears
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Blood of the Fold
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Quotes by Terry Goodkind

Nicci looked up at Kahlan. "Knives are not my talent." "It's not hard," Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci's hand. —When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don't like.
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The foundations of some formerly strong lands became so riddled with termites of diminished purpose, so decayed with the decadence of smug moderation, and so emaciated with the vacillating aims of appears, that even when they saw the enemy coming and did resist, they were easily toppled when the Imperial Order finally pushed.
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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.
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Cara, in the lead, came to a halt beside them, looking from one to the other. Still with the clothes, Lord Rahl?
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Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
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Baraccus had told her that while a number of wizards could make things, the same as the ungifted could make things, it was this component of artistic ability in creating new things that took to to another level and made the makers more than true prophets. Magda remembered the passion in his voice as he told her about such things. Making things was in his soul. Creating new things seemed to be his spark of life.
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Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.
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When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
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There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.
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...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.
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Richard looked up at the beautiful, big pines spreading over them, illuminated in the firelight. A spark of understanding lit in his mind. He saw the branches stretched out with murderous intent in a years-long struggle to reach the sunlight and dispatch its neighbors with its shade. Success would give space for its offspring, many of which would also shrivel in the shade of the parent. Several close neighbors of the big pine were withered and weak, victims all. It was true. The design of nature was success by murder.
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I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.
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Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.
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There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.
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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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Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.
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...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.
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Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. At least you are smart enough to question. Think of how easy it is to believe, for people who don't question, who don't even know how to question. For most people, it's not the truth that is important, it's the cause. Rahl is intelligent; he has given them a cause.
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Fear triggers need, need powers sincerity. Sincerity is the required element.
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The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.
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