Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you’ve destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give moving speeches about them. If you’ve done your job, then there aren’t any of the enemy left to dispute your leader’s reasons. At least not until the next war.
People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.
That’s what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.
It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they’re driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they’d sound ludicrous!
They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.
Fools who won’t see the truth are deadly.
No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.
Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.
If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?
I don’t think I could have written what I did any earlier.
Ever since I was really little, I’ve had characters that were in my mind.
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.
Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.
Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.
No amount of telling is worth doing it once.
Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.
I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!
Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.
Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.
Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.