Sword of Truth

""I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!" — Kahlan"

""The problem with my eyes is that they have been famished, but now they are feasting." — Zedd"

""I am the Seeker. I can do anything." — Richard"

""Promise made . . . . Promise kept!" — Richard"

""And the truth is that you are a bastard son, of a bastard son, of a bastard son! And all of those bastard sons, all the way back, had the gift. Worse, Zedd has the gift. You have the gift, but it is from two blood lines of wizards. You are a very dangerous person, Richard Rahl. You have the gift. In this case, I would be more inclined to call it a curse." — Shota"

""To know Richard, is to know Kahlan." — Denna"

""And so they sent me, because I do." — Kahlan"

""What kind of plans would the Master Rahl have? I plan to conquer the world." — Richard"

""The beam in the central hall. I am sure of it." — Verna"

""As we Wizards go, I'm pretty harmless." — Zedd"

""Good-bye, Father Rahl. I trust you will die without my watching it." — Richard"

""I will give you war; a real war, not a slaughter of women and children but a war lead by me, the Mother Confessor, a woman! War without quarter!" — Kahlan"

""We will fight with our last breath if need be, and in our death, let us inflict a wound on him that will fester until it claims him." — Richard"

""Friends don't bargain away another friend's rights. Or their hearts." — Richard"

""We present Lord Rahl, the Seeker of Truth and wielder of the Sword of Truth, the bringer of death, the Master of D'Hara, the ruler of the Midlands, the commander of the gar nation, the champion of free people and bane of the wicked, and the betrothed of the Mother Confessor." — Berdine"

""Lunetta, I believe there is trouble. I believe the Creator is going insane." — Brogan"

"Richard: "If you don't tell me where the Mother Confessor is, you are going to die."Kahlan: "You are about to slit her throat, Richard.""

""I will bathe in that young man's blood." — Merissa"

""I'm Lord Rahl's favorite." — Berdine"

"Verna: "What about my wrinkles?"Warren: "Someday, when you get wrinkles, I'll love them, too.""

""I will remember only that I loved him, and could never tell him." — Kahlan"

""It's my life. If this is the end, all there is to be, then I will do with the rest of my life as I wish. It's my life to live, not yours to live for me. I'm going with you, and that is final." — Cara"

""With hate in my heart...vengeance without mercy." — Anson"

"The bird let out a slow chicken cackle. It sounded like a chicken, but in her heart she knew it wasn't. In that instant, she completely understood the concept of a chicken that was not a chicken. This looked like a chicken, like most of the Mud People's chickens. But this was no chicken. This was evil manifest."

"Princess Violet glared at him. "My mother says that Confessor Kahlan will come back and that we'll have a surprise for her the next time she comes here. I just want you to know because my mother said you'll be dead by then. My mother says I get to decide what to do to her. First, I'm going to cut off her hair." Her hands were in fists, her face red. "Then I'm going to let all the guards rape her, every one! Then I'm going to put her in the dungeon for a few years so they'll have someone to play with! Then when I get tired of hurting her, I'll have her head chopped off and put it on a pole where I can watch it rot!"Richard actually felt sorry for the little Princess. The sadness for her came over him in a wave. At that feeling, he was surprised to feel the thing in him that had come awake rise up.Princess Violet squeezed her eyes shut, stuck her tongue out far as she could. It was like a red flag. The strength of the awakened power exploded through him. He could feel her jaw shatter like a crystal goblet on a stone floor when his boot came up under it. The impact of the blow lifted the Princess into the air. Her own teeth severed her tongue before they, too, shattered. She landed on her back, a good distance away, trying to scream through the gushing blood."

"(Nicci is going to see the statue) Once in place, her pulse pounding, she turned. Nicci's gaze rose up the legs, the robes, the arms, the bodies of the two peoples, up to their faces. She felt as if a giant fist squeezed her heart to a stop.This was what was in Richard's eyes brought into existence in glowing white marble. To see it fully realized was like being struck by lightning.In that instant, her entire life, everything that had ever happened to her, everything she had ever seen, heard, or done, seemed to come together in one flash of emotional violence. Nicci cried out in pain at the beauty of it, and more so at the beauty of what it represented.Her eyes fell on the name carved in the stone base.LIFENicci collapsed to the floor in tears, in abject shame, in horror, in revulsion, in sudden blinding comprehension...In pure joy."

"(Nicci reveals Richard's statue to Victor, Ishaq, and the rest of the town) "It was something the like of which most of these people had never in their lives seen. It was vision to the blind. It was water to the thirsty. It was life to the dying.""

"Richard leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees. 'I know what it's like to feel regret for how you were born, for what you have, or don't have. I hated being born the way I was - with the gift. But I came to realize how senseless such feelings are, how completely wrong it was to think that way.' 'But it's different with me,' Jennsen said as she pushed at the sand with a finger, erasing the little ruts she'd made with the pebble/ 'There are others like you - wizards or sorceresses with the gift. Everyone else can at least see colors, as you put it. I'm the only one like this.' Richard gazed at his half sister, a beautiful, bright, un-gifted half sister that any previous Lord Rahl would have murdered on the spot, and was overcome with a radiant smile. 'Jennsen, I think of you as born pure. You're like a new snowflake, different than any other, and startlingly beautiful.'"

""Richard is a pebble in the pond - an individual at the center of so many things. He touches so many things. He has turned out to be a core element in all our lives. Everything turns on what he does, on the decisions he makes. If he takes a wrong step, we all fall down." — Ann"

""Richard loves Kahlan. That says it all - it says everything." — Nicci"

""Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours." — Richard"

""We'll fix it. Together. Always together." — Kahlan, to Richard"

""I think Richard could find a way to make the sun rise at midnight." — Denna"

""One way or another, you'll always be in my heart." — Richard, to Denna"

""You are a rare person, Richard Rahl." — Kahlan/Shar/Shota/Sliph/Adie"

""Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead." — Zedd, to the Prelate"

""Who could forget Richard? Trouble and wonder in one package." — Sister Simona"

""[Zedd] always said that if you accept the possibility, then you make it real. I've decided that until someone proves it otherwise to me, I'm not going to accept his death. I believe in him. I believe he's alive and out there, somewhere, causing someone trouble." — Richard"

"(Richard addressing the Sisters of the Light when he first arrives at the Palace of the Prophets) "His fingers tapped the Rada’Han around his neck. 'As long as you keep this collar on me you are my captors and I am your prisoner. Since I have committed no aggression against you that makes us enemies. We are at war. Sister Verna has made a pledge to me that I will be taught to control the gift and when I have learned what is required I will be set free. For now, as long as you keep that pledge we have a truce. But there are conditions. I have been collared before. The person who put that collar on me brought me pain, to punish me, to teach me, to subdue me. That is the sole purpose of a collar, you collar a beast, you collar your enemies. I made her much the same offer I am making you. I begged her to release me, she would not. I was forced to kill her. Not one of you could ever hope to be good enough to lick her boots. She did as she did because she was tortured and broken; made mad enough to use a collar to hurt people. She did it against her nature. You do it because you think it is your right. You enslave in the name of your Creator. I don’t know your creator. The only one beyond this world who I know would do as you do is the Keeper. As far as I am concerned you may as well be the Keeper's disciples. If you do as she, and use this collar to bring me pain the truce will be ended. You may think you hold the leash to this collar, but I promise you if the truce ends you will find that what you hold is a bolt of lightning.'" — Richard"