“The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“Only a fool walks into the future backwards.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“The Screelings are loose and the Keeper may win.
His assassins have come to rip off your skin.
Golden eyes will see you if you try to run.
The screelings will get you and laugh like it's fun.
Walk away slow or they'll tear you apart,
and laugh all day long as they rip out your heart.
Golden eyes will see you if you try to stand still.
The screelings will get you, for the Keeper they kill.
Hack 'em up, chop 'em up, cut 'em to bits,
or else they will get you while laughing in fits.
If the screelings don't get you the Keeper will try,
to reach out and touch you, your skin he will fry.
Your mind he will flail, your soul he will take.
You'll sleep with the dead, for life you'll forsake.
You'll die with the Keeper till the end of time.
He hates that you live, your life is the crime.
The screelings might get you, it says so in text.
If screelings don't get you the Keeper is next,
lest he who's born true can fight for life's bond.
And that one is marked; he's the pebble in the pond.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“Wizard's Second Rule
The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“I love you," she whispered.
Richard pulled her tight against him. His fingers traced a trail down the bumps of her spine.
"I feel so frustrated that there aren't any better words than "I love you,"" he said. "It doesn't seem enough for the way I feel about you. I'm sorry there aren't any better words to tell you."
"They are words enough for me."
"Then, I love you, Kahlan. A thousand times, a million times, I love you. Forever.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“Do you hate me because I have magic?"
"Of course not."
"Do you love me despite my magic?"
He thought a minute. "No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroyed me.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“...You have to accept yourself, who you are. You don't believe. You still fight who you are. Until you accept yourself, until you believe, you won't be able to call forth your Han, your power, except in great anger.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“How do you know who I am?'
Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“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.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“I thought I was going to die there, alone. I thought I would never see you again." He seemed to shake off the memory and leaned back on an elbow, gazing at her with a lop-sided smile on his face.
"The Shadrin left some scars that aren't healed yet. But I would have to take off my pants to show them to you."
"Really?" Kahlan gave a throaty laugh. "I think I better have a look... to see if everything is all right.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“Life was not fair, it simply existed. If you accidentally stepped on a poison snake, you got bitten. Intentions were irrelevant.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“He was the monster. That was what Kahlan saw. And she had sent him away in a collar to be tortured. Because he was a monster that needed to be collared, a beast.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“You can’t expect to walk through life without stepping in the muck now and again. The important thing is to maintain your footing when you do, and not fall on your face and make it worse.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“Sometimes, that’s all life is: one desperate act after another.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“Zedd had taught him that the creator was simply another name for the force of balance in all things, and not some wise man sitting in judgment.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“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.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“superstition needs no grounding in truth, but once rooted, it grows a strong though twisted tree.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“The greatest harm can result from the best intentions - Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“Do you know, Richard, that it's the weight of one flake of snow that is one too many, and causes an avalanche? Without that one, last flake, the catastrophe would not happen. When using magic, you must know which is the one snowflake too many before you add its weight. The avalanche will be out of all proportion to what you think the weight of that flake could invoke.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
“Darken Rahl shook his fists to the sky. “No!”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Stone of Tears
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“The asteroid was longer on the inside than it was on the outside. The seventh chamber went on forever.”
― Greg Bear, quote from Eon
“My father laughed. "The magic of Summer," he said, "is unlike anything else. Imagine life, fertility, laughter, joy, ripening fruits and the smell of fresh bread baking in the morning. That is Summer magic."
Forever Frost (Frost Series 2)”
― Kailin Gow, quote from Bitter Frost
“It goes without saying that you could not vanquish the ignorant masses around you; little by little, as you advance in life, you will be obliged to yield and to be swallowed up in the crowd of a hundred thousand human beings; life will stifle you, but you will all the same not have disappeared without having exerted an influence; of women like you, there will be after you perhaps only six, then twelve, and so on, until finally you will become the majority. In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, amazing, astonishing. Man has need of that life and if it doesn't yet exist, he must sense it, wait for it and dream of it, prepare to receive it, and to achieve that he must see and know more than our grandfathers and fathers saw or knew.”
― Anton Chekhov, quote from The Three Sisters
“The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates.”
― Tahir Shah, quote from House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
“I refused to believe that I'd gone from sane to full-blown delusional in one night. After some consideration, I determined I didn't have any other crazy thoughts. I didn't think I was Napoleon, or that my bagel was an alien, and I didn't have voices in my head warning me about terrorist plots. Near as I could tell, I was still on the right side of sane.”
― Eileen Cook, quote from Unraveling Isobel
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