Terry Goodkind, The First Confessor
18 quotes
"The truth has value."
"Fear triggers need, need powers sincerity. Sincerity is the required element."
"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."
"As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life."
"Anger is a shield for the power of the sword's magic, so that helped."
"Chickens can move and flop for hours after their heads are cut off. They have no heartbeat either," Naja said, "and that doesn't involve magic."
"A Grace connected creating the World of life, and the world of the dead in pathways of magic."
"Without delay, Tilly entered the ninth opening, a number that she knew from Baraccus had great meaning on things having to do with magic."
"Eliminate the tyranny of magic from mankind."
"Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler"
"Life connects us all to magic, as illustrated through the design of the Grace. So, for a Confessor, I don't need a gifted person, just a living one."
"Your destiny is to find the truth."
"The dead must heed them."
"Information is the coin of war."
"Thunder without sound jolted the air around her. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glorious."
"Safety is only an illusion when evil is on the hunt. I can't stand by and watch. I have to act. It isn't easy to absolve one's self of guilt."
"If I was a nobody you wouldn't be so eager to see me dead. Just like these people you know that I am devoted to the truth. That is why you want to eliminate me." - Magda Searus"
"This was the threshold to the place of the dead."