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Terry Goodkind (Author of Faith of the Fallen)

“Anger made a better warrior than fear.” (Faith of the Fallen Quotes)
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“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.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“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.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Don’t worship a man. Worship his cause, but not him.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Everything about him: the way he shot an arrow; the way he carved; the way he used a sword; even the way he walked with such fluid reasoned intent—they weren’t separate things, separate abilities…they were all the same thing.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Evil was not one large entity, but a ceaseless torrent of small wrongs left unchallenged, until they festered into monsters.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. “Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason, through this rule. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are virulent poison, giving the numbing illusion of moral sanction to every depravity ever hatched. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Free people were not ruled. Freedom had first to be valued before its existence could be demanded.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Freedom requires effort if it is to be won and vigilance if it is to be maintained. People just don’t value freedom until it is taken away.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“He slipped the baldric over his head, laying the leather across his shoulder and the scabbard at his hip. Knowing the weapon a little more intimately, now, he had a new respect for it.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“He wanted this to show the raw power of volition. The man and woman he carved were his refuge against his despair over his captivity. They embodied freedom of spirit. They embodied reason rising up to triumph.” (Faith of the Fallen Quotes)
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Her life was hers to live by right. She belonged to no one.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“If you care about yourself, you should care about learning – even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs…Others can’t grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“It’s only some rice and beans Captain. It’s not like I’m giving you Cara’s hand in marriage.” – Richard”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Knowing when not to fight is just as important as knowing how.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don’t need to prove it to someone who doesn’t know theirs.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no commitment that overrides that one. Cut. Cut from the void, not from bewilderment. Cut the enemy as quickly and directly as possible. Cut decisively, resolutely. Cut into the enemy’s strength. Flow through the gaps in his guard. Cut him. Cut him down utterly. Don’t allow him a breath. Crush him. Cut him without mercy to the depths of his spirit.”-Richard Rahl”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason, through this rule. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“Save your anger for the enemy. Here it will do you no good; there, it can overcome fear. Use this time now to teach your sword what to do, so later it will do it without conscious thought.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“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.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“She had never asked why it was right for her to be a slave to another’s desires, but not evil for them to enslave her. She was not contributing to the betterment of mankind, but was merely a servant to countless puling little tyrants. Evil was not one large entity, but a ceaseless torrent of small wrongs left unchallenged, until they festered into monsters.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“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.” (Faith of the Fallen Quotes)
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“She understood, now, why life had seemed so empty, so pointless: she herself had rendered it so in refusing to think.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“The entire mass of people before the palace erupted in a deafening roar. And then, as one, they lunged forward.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“The first law of reason is that what exists, exists; what is, is, and that from this ineducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built…that is the foundation from which life is embraced… thinking is a choice…wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discover them… reason is our only way of grasping reality–it’s our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking-to reject reason-but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see… Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason. In rejecting reason one embraces death.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“The most important rule there is, the Wizard’s Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“The only sovereign we could allow to rule us is reason.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“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.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you’re already doing to harm yourself…You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That’s a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“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.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“To question me once is a simple mistake, Lieutenant. Twice is treason. We execute traitors.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“When you are facing superior strength, you must use your wits.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen

“You have one Mord-Sith and one Mother Confessor, here, both in very bad moods. I would suggest you not give us an excuse to lose our temper, or we may never find it again in your lifetime.”
Terry Goodkind
Faith of the Fallen