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21 " Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside. "
― Terry Goodkind , Stone of Tears (Sword of Truth, #2)
22 " Life was not fair, it simply existed. If you accidentally stepped on a poison snake, you got bitten. Intentions were irrelevant. "
23 " 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. "
24 " 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. "
25 " Sometimes, that’s all life is: one desperate act after another. "
26 " superstition needs no grounding in truth, but once rooted, it grows a strong though twisted tree. "
27 " 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. "
28 " 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. "
29 " The greatest harm can result from the best intentions - Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander "
30 " 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. "
31 " Darken Rahl shook his fists to the sky. “No! "
32 " Admitting defeat established a mental state of resignation that made it certain. "
33 " The mark of a wise person is being able to reach beyond for the truth, to admit they can learn more than they already know. "
34 " The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. "
35 " It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind. "
36 " Reality could seldom match the imagination, and in the imagination, the pain was real. "
37 " Good intentions, being kind, can encourage the lazy, and motivate sound minds to become indolent. The more help you give them, the more help they need. As long as your kindness is open-ended, they never gain discipline, dignity, or self-reliance. Your kindness impoverishes their humanity. "
38 " It should hurt, shouldn’t it? Shouldn’t it hurt to be ripped in half? But it didn’t. It didn’t hurt the least little bit. Cold. She felt only cold. But the warm rope of her guts laying against her face felt good. Warm. She took comfort in the warmth. "
39 " Don’t shed tears over those already in the ground, until after you have brought vengeance to those who put them there. There will be time enough, then. "
40 " If war is brought to you, then it is incumbent upon you to show no mercy. Surely you will be shown none, and you will be a traitor to your people and as good as their enemy if you let any clemency slip its bounds, for your people will pay for your mistake with their lives. "