Terry Goodkind

We all can be no more, or less, than who we are.”

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble

oes Richard have the gift?"
Zedd lifted his eyebrows as he nodded. "Indeed he does. That was one reason I hid him

As you said, the Keeper lusts for those with the gift more than any other. I knew that if I began teaching him, used magic very much myself, the gaze of danger would settle on him

boots Kahlan wore beneath her elegant, white Confessor’s dress whispered against the cold stone as she tried to keep pace without letting her legs break into

guess I always knew that she loved Richard

was then that he spotted Kahlan.

Richard caught a brief glint of reflection off the blade. He wanted to laugh out loud, to cheer, but he didn't dare move a muscle.

As she did so, and the hood of her cloak moved just enough, Richard saw the dark bruise on her left cheek.

For a brief moment, their eyes met. In that fleeting instant, Kahlan realized that even though he hadn't looked her way once throughout the game, he had known exactly where she had been the entire time.