Chainfire Quotes

“Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“Wizard's Ninth Rule
A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - Cara”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“Freedom is never easy to keep and can easily be lost. All it takes is willful indifference.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breath life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded,not of thinking rational people.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“Appearance, after all, was a reflection of what a person thought of themselves and therefore, by extension, of others.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“It never failed to amaze her how simply saying something, no matter how untrue, was all it took to convince a large number of people of what you wanted them to believe.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“Faith is a device of self-delusion, a sleight of hand done with words and emotions founded on any irrational notion that can be dreamed up. Faith is the attempt to coerce truth to surrender to whim. In simple terms, it is trying to breathe life into a lie by trying to outshine reality with the beauty of wishes. Faith is the refuge of fools, the ignorant, and the deluded, not of thinking, rational men.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

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

“Master Rahl guide us. Master Rahl teach us. Master Rahl protect us,” Kahlan murmured yet again. “In your light we thrive. In your mercy we are sheltered. In your wisdom we are humbled. We live only to serve. Our lives are yours.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

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

“No self-respecting bird in good health would allow its feathers to look ruffled. No confident cougar would let its fur long remain matted and dirty.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“Even though people proclaimed with complete confidence that such mysterious forces were fundamentally unknowable to mere mortals, they nonetheless passionately believed, without evidence, that they could be certain that the power of charms would soothe the savage temper of those menacing forces, insisting that faith was all that was necessary—as if faith were a mystical plaster with the power to patch over all the yawning holes in their convictions.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“Richard saw through the trappings to what lay beneath all superstition—nothing less than the call to surrender to the view of man as helpless in accomplishing his own ends and dealing with the reality of the world around him in order to further his own survival, instead embracing the notion that he existed only at the whim of vague and unknowable forces that can only be persuaded to stay their cruel and merciless impulses if man falls to his knees in supplication, or, if they have to enter a spiritual place, by carrying the proper fetish.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“to think of the solution—and not the problem.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“It was a sound so black, so poisonous, so horrific”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It’s your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life’s greatest rewards.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire

“wire-wound hilt greeted his fingers. The sword lay on the ground beside him.”
― Terry Goodkind, Chainfire