Top 50 Quotes From Craig Horner

Richard: [takes Kahlan's hand] This is where we say goodbye.
Cara: Can't we speed this up? She loves you, you love her. I should protect her as if she were you. I missed anything? We could be halfway there by the time you two finish your goodbyes.
Kahlan: We'll catch up once the Night Wisp is safe.
Richard: Be careful.
Kahlan: And you too.

Richard: We'll escort you to the coast.
Kahlan: Will the other Confessors meet us there?
Serena: There are no other Confessors, Kahlan. We are all that's left.

Richard: I'd like to speak on Zedd's behalf before his sentence is carried out.
heartless: It's your right to speak.
Richard: In sentencing Zedd for treason, you failed to take into consideration his exceptional life and deeds. Should I list them?
heartless: I'm well aware of Zedd's accomplishments. But it doesn't change the fact that he conspired to overthrow me. He broke the law.
Richard: As Mother Confessor, the law is what you say it is.
heartless: And I say the Code of Aydindril is the law.
Richard: I've read the Code of Aydindril. It was written by the first Mother Confessor. She said there is no justice be it not tempered with mercy.
heartless: Magda Searus, the first Mother Confessor, she was not without her enemy. She killed when it was necessary.
Richard: She did kill. In fact, she insisted that all male Confessor babies be killed because they lack the compassion necessary to control their powers.
heartless: Is my sex in question, Richard?
Richard: No. But your compassion is. You have none. Because you are, in fact, not the Mother Confessor.
heartless: You know who I am, Richard.
Richard: I know your kindness, your wisdom, and, yes, your compassion. But I don't see these things in you. Because they're in her!
heartless: [amazed to see 'softer self' unveiling] This is a trick.
Richard: This is no trick. She's been with me since the moment you left. When you used the amulet, you were split in two. You may have your powers, and your sharp mind, but the rest of you is in her. Your heart... your compassion... your mercy. The Mother Confessor needs all of it. Zedd can fix this. He can put you back together. He can make you a whole person again. But until he does, you don't have the right to decide his fate, or anyone else's.
heartless: Let's assume you're correct, and I no longer have the part of me that cares for you... or for Zedd. That... compassion, as you call it, kept me from my duties here. Without it, I'm a better leader, a better judge, a better Confessor. Whoever she is, I don't need her getting in the way of that.
Richard: If you refuse to allow Zedd to put you back together, you will leave this woman without her reason, her power. Is that just?
heartless: [surprised] She has no powers?
[her 'carbon copy' shakes her head]
heartless: Then you and Richard can be together. Do you feel incomplete?
[timid version hesitates]
heartless: You can't lie to a Confessor, I think you know that.
powerless: No, I don't feel incomplete. If you're part of me, then... I don't want you back. Not if it means I'd put duty above love. Not if it means I can never be Richard's wife.
Richard: I'm never going to be your husband!
powerless: No, you'll change your mind. I can be everything that you want. I won't ask you to give up your quest. I'll... I'll love Cara like a sister. And you can have her too if that's what you want. And you'll love me just like you did before.
Richard: [to 'hard version'] Would you look at her? She's not in her right mind! And neither are you.
heartless: Richard, I understand that you miss some... idealized form of the Kahlan you loved. But you do not have the right to murder two distinct individuals simply to get the one that you want. I've made my decision. Go back to your quest and take her with you!
Richard: I'm not going anywhere until you let Zedd go!
heartless: Then you'll be arrested for defying the Mother Confessor.
[to: ]
heartless: Seize them!

Clayre,: [deceitful couple got locked up] If you were the real Seeker, you'd have sacrificed yourself and let the woman get away.
Frytss,: When a real woman comes along, I'll do just that.

Richard: [magical iron collar] So all we have to do is get this thing around the beast's neck?
Kahlan: I think Marius can help with that.
Marius: [confessed] How may I serve you?
Kahlan: You're going to be the bait.

King: My kingdom is being terrorized by a vicious beast that's ravaging our countryside, and I need your help to destroy this monster.
Richard: Tell me where to find this beast.
King: You already have. It's me.

Arina: [approaching on horseback] Please, wait!
[dismounts hurriedly, is in panicking state]
Arina: Are you the Seeker?
Richard: Yes.
Arina: Thank the Spirits! The constable in Dewith told me you were headed this way.
Richard: It's all right. Catch your breath. Come on, sit down. What happened?
Arina: Two days ago, men kidnapped my husband. They took other people from our village too.
Richard: Who were these men?
Arina: I don't know. We were in the field, bringing in the harvest. They came with swords and clubs. Grabbed as many as they could and rode off with them in a wagon.
Cara: Maybe you haven't heard, but the Seeker is on a quest. Perhaps this constable of yours can help you.
Richard: [admonishing] Cara!
Arina: The constable can't help us. He's got his hands full fighting the banelings.
Zeddicus: [alarmed] Banelings?
Arina: There seem to be more of them in our valley every day.
Kahlan: Could banelings have abducted these people for some reason?
Cara: Banelings don't kidnap people, they kill them.
Zeddicus: Yes, but they have to do it every single day to stay alive. Maybe they're stocking up on victims.
Richard: [to Arina] If you take us to where your husband was grabbed, we'll pick up the trail of the wagon.
Cara: [impatiently] That will take days!
Richard: We'll get back to looking for the Stone of Tears. Right now, this woman needs our help.
[Cara is annoyed]

Zeddicus: Lesson number 1, sometimes to gain ground you need to slow down.
Richard: That doesn't make sense.
Kahlan: Never expect sense from a wizard.

Kahlan: What I can do to people... Bring them under my control... My mother did that to my father.
Richard: Why?
Kahlan: She... she had to. And when I was five years old, and my sister was three... my Mom died... and... my father was freed from her hold on him. So he came to get us. To claim what was his. He started making us use our powers to get what he wanted out of people. We made them do... such terrible... things.
[tearfully shakes her head]
Kahlan: And if we tried not to, he would...
Renn: Tie you up. Bind your hands.

Richard: If we don't find Flynn and get the Stone Of Tears, the Keeper will destroy every living thing. So you can come with us, or you can go after Cara.
Kahlan: [after a moment of silence] If I ever see her again, I'll kill her.

Richard: Zedd, you know her?
Zeddicus: Once, when I was a foolish young wizard and ventured into that seductress' lair.
Shota: Few have ever complained.
Zeddicus: Few have ever lived long enough to.
Shota: I should've killed you when I had the chance.
Richard: Who is she?
Zeddicus: A powerful sorceress, who rules Agaden Reach, using her twisted magic to shape events in her favor. And she's no friend of the Seeker.
Shota: Nor am I a friend of Darken Rahl. If he gains dominion over this world, I'll be enslaved by his magic. I must help the Seeker, for the prophecy says only he can defeat Darken Rahl.

Jeziah: You should kill me.
Zeddicus: We're taking you to a healer. You'll wear the Rada'han for the rest of your life. You'll never have the powers of a Wizard again, old friend.
Richard: You know him?
Zeddicus: I thought I did.

Richard: Girls?
Cara: Hmm. Half a dozen of them, hanging all over him. And then he disappeared. I've been searching for him all night.

Richard: I'd never even heard of the D'Harans until they killed my father. And I have another brother back in Hartland; Michael. I love him. But the D'Harans turned him against me. So now I know exactly what they're capable of and I know that giving in won't stop them.

Richard: Kahlan, about... back at the river. I didn't see anything.
Kahlan: Richard, you should never lie to a Confessor.
[smiles, walks on]

Richard: [Livia has disappeared] No tracks! She didn't leave on foot.
Zeddicus: Obviously, there is magic at work here.

Richard: [seething] And what is it that you want?
Sister: You're going to lead me to the Stone of Tears. And if any of you attempt to follow us, Kahlan will die.
Zeddicus: And so will you!
Sister: I serve the Keeper. I'm not afraid of death. Neither are the four powerful Sisters of the Dark who are trying to kill me and take my han.

Richard: [plans to dig tunnel or do whatever to rescue Kahlan] We have to get over the wall.
Zeddicus: And once were inside? It will be three of us against hundreds, with no magic at our disposal. I believe there's another way. Apparently, the margrave is about to choose a new bride to share with him the eternity he's purchasing with Kahlan's life. Every high-born beauty in the Midlands has been competing to be chosen, but the margrave has narrowed down the selection to the countess of Dunstable and the princess of Thryce. They'll both be arriving at the palace tomorrow morning...
Richard: Zedd, why are you telling us the local gossip when Kahlan is going to be handed over to the Sisters of the Dark?
Zeddicus: Because the margrave has known the countess for years, but he knows the princess only by her glowing reputation. He has never actually laid eyes on her. If the princess and her retinue happened to be intercepted on their way, we could arrive at the palace in their place, and be welcomed with open arms. All we need is a princess.
Cara: [clearly agrees that it's a good idea, nods, then realizes:] Oh, no. Mm-hmm.
Richard: Cara, it could work.
Cara: I'm no princess!
Zeddicus: No, you're not. Especially not this princess, who is renowned for her delicacy, her charm, and most especially, her virtue.
[Cara is dismayed]
Zeddicus: But the impossibility of the task must not prevent us from undertaking it.
[spells the princess and her entourage,: ]
Zeddicus: Her Serene Highness, Princess Lorelyn of Thryce.
Cara: [regards this very portrait of a lady:] I think we should dig the tunnel.

[Last lines]
Richard: They'll be fine. You said it yourself. Dennee and Finn can't be confessed. So their son's touch will have no effect. He can't be seduced by his own power if he's unable to use it. Once they reach Valeria, there won't be anyone to corrupt him. With no one to corrupt him, they can raise him to be a force for good.
Kahlan: But what if we're wrong? What if we've unleashed a horrible evil into the world? What then?

Richard: Even if we find the Stone and you destroy it, even if you kill yourself and take Kahlan with you, you won't win.
Sister: Your fight against the Keeper is futile. In the end, he will win. He always does. Life is fleeting, death is eternal.

D'Haran: I'm not here to fight. I'm here to deliver a message from Mistress Denna. She holds the girl's mother at the Cave of Sorrows. You bring the box or she dies. You have until nightfall.
Jennsen: We have to go. Now.
Zeddicus: I'm sorry, child, but we cannot forfeit the final Box of Orden for one person's life.
Richard: That's easy for you to say. She's not your mother.
Zeddicus: No. She's my daughter.
[a few seconds of silence]
Zeddicus: Yes, I'm your grandfather.
[turns to Jennsen]
Zeddicus: And apparently yours as well, child.

Kahlan: [as Richard views the reflection of his scar in sword blade] Does it hurt?
Richard: It's nothing.
Kahlan: The spirit of the tyrant you killed comes back from the grave and burns the mark of the Keeper in your chest?
[her fingers glide over the scar and she shakes her head]
Kahlan: It's not nothing, Richard. I wish I knew what it meant.
Richard: [grabs her hand] What we do know is we need to seal a rift between this world and the Underworld. And to do that, we need to find the Stone of Tears. And to find the Stone, we need to get to the Abbot of Ulrich.

Zeddicus: Rachel! Come!
[laughs]
Zeddicus: Sit, child.
Rachel: Are you going to stay here with us? It's nice here.
Zeddicus: I wish we could. But Richard and I need to see Kaylan safely to Aydindril.
Rachel: Why are you going there?
Richard: That's where the Mother Confessor presides.
Martha: The Midlands under the rule of law and justice. I never thought I'd live to see the day.
Rachel: [to Kaylan] Are you going to marry Richard?
Martha: Rachel!
Kahlan: It's okay. Uh... no,
[shakes her head]
Kahlan: we're not getting married.
Rachel: Don't you love each other?
Kahlan: Yes. But my duties as a Confessor, my powers, keep me from being a wife to Richard.
Rachel: That's not fair.

Kahlan: [Approaching the Daharan camp] It's not well-guarded. That's lucky.
Richard: You know what Zedd says, "A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it".

Richard: [to Kahlan] I won't let anything happen to you.
Zeddicus: Then you'd best not let anything happen to her!
[points at Sister Nicci walking away determinedly]

Richard: Kahlan, why did you do that?
Kahlan: Do what?
Richard: What is this? You take your clothes off. You swim that close to me...
Kahlan: Take my clothes off? What are you talking about?
Richard: [notices] Your hair's dry.
[realizes: ]
Richard: That wasn't you in the lake.
Kahlan: Your hair's wet. That wasn't you in the forest.
[realizes: ]
Kahlan: Someone has got some very powerful magic.
Richard: [draws his sword] Someone very close by.
[realizes: ]
Richard: Oh, no...!
Kahlan: What?
Richard: I know my sword, and this isn't it.
Kahlan: Someone stole the Sword of Truth? How did that happen?
Richard: I was distracted.
Kahlan: [exasperated] By a naked woman you went swimming with.
Richard: But I thought that was you. They can't be far! I'll look for tracks by the lake. You go up the path!

[Last lines]
Kahlan: We should get going soon.
Richard: Aww, come on. What's the hurry?
Kahlan: Well, if you're going to need to rescue every damsel in distress, there's no time to waste.

Richard: They murdered all those people, unarmed women and children, just because they gave me food and shelter a few months ago.
Kahlan: Richard, Darken Rahl's been killing innocent people long before you got to the Midlands.

[first lines]
Cara: It's a good thing Mord-Siths are used to torture, because that's exactly what eating this stew will be.
Richard: [takes sniff] Well, maybe Zedd and Kahlan will find some mushrooms.
Cara: It's gonna take more than mushrooms to save this.

Renn: [about Kahlan] Why don't you tell her how you feel?
Richard: It's complicated. You'll understand when you're an adult some day.
Renn: It's not complicated. You're afraid she doesn't feel the same. But you don't need to be afraid. She feels the same.
[Kahlan wakes]

Kahlan: [sleepless, after staring up at starry sky] Richard... Richard!
Richard: What's wrong? Are you all right?
Kahlan: Oh, yeah, I'm fine, everything's fine. It's just... I need to talk to you.
[looks over her shoulder at Cara on guard duty]
Kahlan: Alone.
Richard: [to Cara] We're going to take a walk.

Cara: [both of them shivering] We're wasting heat.
Richard: What do you mean?
Cara: [regards him slyly] Try not to be an idiot.

Denna: You surprise me, Seeker. You could have run, might even have made it to the main gate. But you gave up your one chance at freedom. All for a child you'd never met. Why?
Richard: To keep her from becoming like you!

Richard: Maybe this is the chance we've been waiting for. I mean, we can never find Darken Rahl because he's always changing his location. But if this Demmin Nass is his most trusted commander, wouldn't he know where he is? If we can infiltrate the encampment at Kelabra and get close to Demmin Nass...
Kahlan: I could confess him.
Zeddicus: And we'd have one of Rahl's inner circle as our ally.
Richard: And if we can find Rahl, we can kill him.

Kahlan: [Richard killed the soldier they should have captured alive] Why did you do that? I had him!
Richard: It looked to me like he had you!

D'Haran: Command me, Confessor!
Kahlan: Tell me why you attacked us.
D'Haran: We had standing orders to kill the Seeker.
Richard: Maybe you haven't gotten word. The war's over.
D'Haran: Yes, but there's a rumor among the officer corps that the Seeker's of the Rahl bloodline, that he's next in line for the throne.
Cara: Then the D'Harans should serve him, not try to kill him.
D'Haran: My commanding officer, general Grix, wants to claim the throne for himself. He's trying to eliminate anyone who would challenge him. Not only the Seeker, but rival generals in the D'Haran army as well.
Cara: Only a Lord Rahl can rule the empire, not some common foot soldier.

Cara: What's wrong?
Kahlan: [dazedly shakes her head] Nothing. It was just a bad dream.
Richard: Tell me about it.
Kahlan: I was in a desert. There was a bird. And a blind girl.
Zeddicus: The starless blackbird of Caska.
Flynn: [awakened] I'm trying to sleep here.
Zeddicus: That wasn't any ordinary dream. That was a message. It belongs to a Dream Caster. A magical clan of nomads living in the desert far away from here. Every generation, a blackbird befriends a small child. That child is then recognized as the High Priestess and has the power to send dreams on the wings of birds.
Kahlan: The girl in my dream, she told me soon I would be the last of my kind.
Zeddicus: Could be a warning the line of Confessors is in danger.
Kahlan: I have to go to Valeria, make sure my sister's safe!
Cara: Valeria? That's hundreds of leagues from here!
Richard: You can't travel alone. I'll go with you.
Cara: I thought there was nothing more important than taking him
[grabs Flynn's hand]
Cara: and his magic rune to Pamorah to find the Stone of Tears.
Richard: Zedd, you go on ahead with Cara and Flynn. We'll catch up with you as soon as we can.
Cara: It's a waste of time.
[walks away]
Kahlan: Why do you say that?
Cara: The Confessors living on Valeria are dead. When Darken Rahl found out there was a male Confessor living on Valeria, he ordered us to bring him the child. But when we stormed the island, the mother sacrificed the baby so we couldn't take it.
Kahlan: And the mother?
Cara: She was eliminated.
Kahlan: My sister? Dennee is dead?
Cara: There was no pain.
[sighs]
Cara: I killed her swiftly.
Richard: [Kahlan is enraged and her pupils become dark] Kahlan?
Flynn: [horrified witnessing transformation] What's happening to her?
Zeddicus: It's the Con Dar!
Richard: Kahlan?
Zeddicus: Stay back!
[to: ]
Zeddicus: You have to leave now!
Cara: I only did what I was ordered to.
Richard: [struggling to hold down virtual tigress Kahlan has become] I can't hold her much longer! Run!
Cara: But I swore to serve you.
Richard: [yells] That isn't possible anymore! Get out of here now!
[Cara runs]

Richard: [as moonlight bathes sanctuary, he approaches red-robed figure] Who are you?
Sister: [lifts up veil, has beautiful face] I am Sister Nicci.
Richard: [recognizes] I saw you today with the Prelate.
Sister: Yes. She considers me one of her closest advisers.
Richard: Why did you ask me here?
Sister: To tell you a secret that could get me killed. But you must know the truth.
Richard: What truth?

[first lines]
Richard: [the two of them fleeing before swarm] Run, Kahlan, run!
Kahlan: Did we lose them?
Richard: I think so.
Kahlan: Those bees were more relentless than the Dragon Corps.
Richard: [palm full of sweetness] So much work for so little honey.

Kahlan: What is it about this woman that makes you always wanna rescue her?
Richard: I believe people can change.

Kahlan: Where have you been?
Richard: Uh, I got my foot caught in a hunter's trap.
Kahlan: Oh, I'm sure you got something caught somewhere. We need to move, now!

Flynn: [re the rune on his hand] Seems this is worth quite a bit to you. At least as much as the treasure. You want me to go with you to this Pamorah? It will cost you.
Richard: [shakes his head] You're not getting the treasure.
Flynn: Well, then I guess I'm not going anywhere. And this hand...
[holds it up, showing off the etch]
Flynn: goes where I go.
Cara: Not if I cut it off.
Flynn: [swayed] When do we leave?
Richard: [to Cara] Lock him up in the warden's office until we deal with the banelings.
[she gleefully yanks Flynn along]

Courtesan: Welcome to the Palace of Athenia. What is your pleasure?
Denna: Tonight it seems the pleasure is all mine.
Richard: Denna?
Denna: It's good to see you again, Seeker. I heard a rumor you were travelling with a Mord-Sith. Thank you, Bella, I'll look after our guests.
Courtesan: Yes, Madame Denna.
Cara: Madame Denna? The right hand of Darken Rahl, reduced to peddling flesh.
Denna: Times are difficult. A Mord-Sith has to make a living... now that the war is over. I'm simply taking what I've learned... and putting it to good use. And pleasure, after all, is the inverse of pain. Knowledge of one makes mastery of the other so much easier. You of all people should know that, Cara.
Cara: The place of a Mord-Sith is at the side of Lord Rahl.
Denna: So, the rumors are true.
Richard: We're looking for a D'Haran general named Grix. Do you know him?
Denna: I find that it's good business to be friendly with the local commanders.
Cara: You provide them with whores, and in exchange, they leave you alone.
Denna: Many of my clients would enjoy your acerbic tongue. You could do very well here.
[to: ]
Denna: What's your interest in the general?
Richard: He's gotten hold of a supply of Whisperers. He's planning to use them against other D'Haran officers. Destroy the villages. If we don't find Grix, he could wipe out half your clientele. If you know where he is, you'd better tell me.
Denna: He left. When you find him, and I'm certain you will, remind him he still owes me for the damage he caused. The general and his men drank too much, and destroyed one of my finest suites.
Richard: I'll pass that along.
Denna: As pleasant as this has been, I have other guests to attend to. But I hope you'll both indulge yourselves while you're here. Compliments of the house, of course. It's the least I can do for old friends.
[walks away, the low cut of her dress, down to the small of her back, giving Richard the full wattage of her appeal]

Richard: [reading from The Book Of Counted Shadows] "Orden is a voracious wolf. Its strength rivaled only by its insatiable appetite. Only one power can touch the beast's heart and tame it."
[to the Wizard: ]
Richard: What kind of magic can tame the power of Orden? Somehow make it safe to use?
Zeddicus: I've never heard of a magic stronger than the power of Orden.
Richard: You once said of all the power in the world, there's none more powerful than love.
Zeddicus: It's an old expression.
Richard: As old as The Book Of Counted Shadows?
Zeddicus: What are you thinking?
Richard: That the one force that can touch the beast's heart and tame it, is love.

Chase: I gotta get back to Hartland. I gotta find my family.
Richard: Then we're coming with you.
Kahlan: But Darken Rahl is in the opposite direction.
Chase: Kahlan's right. You have a bigger fight, my friend.
Richard: I've seen what Rahl's forces can do to people. If I can't protect my own village, what kind of a Seeker am I?

Richard: [arriving at ruins] It must have burned at least three months ago. These weeds are at least that old.
Kahlan: D'Harans did this.
Zeddicus: Then where are the corpses?
Cara: If the abbot isn't here, then we have come a long way for nothing.
Richard: If D'Harans did this, and they didn't kill the monks, where would they have taken them?
Cara: From here, they would have been taken to Tothrayne.
Richard: What's Tothrayne?
Cara: A death camp.

Frytss,: You're not just doing this because I look like this, are you?
Clayre,: Oh,
[laughing: ]
Clayre,: if I cared about looks, do you think I'd have picked the likes of you to begin with?
[both laugh]
Frytss,: We'll get out of this, Clayre. No matter what. We've gotten out of worse. Like the time we were doing the kidnapped sister in Glensborough.
Clayre,: [laughing] And the Duke walked in when I was changing my wig.
Frytss,: And he threw us into the dungeon with that ogre.
Clayre,: Who smelled of rotten monkeys.
[laughs, then slaps him hard]
Clayre,: None of which would have happened if you hadn't taken it upon yourself to deflower the Duke's daughter. Have you ever met a woman who you thought wouldn't look better with her knickers on the bedpost?
Frytss,: Clayre...
Clayre,: Oh, don't even try. I'd have to be a few tomatoes short of a salad to go down that garden path again. I don't know about you, but I am getting out of this dung heap.
[at: ]
Clayre,: Hello? Anyone out there?

Cara: [closing lid of crate] I've seen him before. A man came to the stables asking for a horse so he could take his brother to be buried.
Richard: Apparently he took the treasure instead.
Kahlan: [to Cara] And you believed his story?
Cara: [to Richard, ignoring Kahlan] The Confessor told me I had to show more compassion.
Kahlan: Are you saying this is my fault?
Cara: Yes.
Richard: [as the two young women glare at each other] It doesn't matter whose fault it is. We need to find him.

[Last lines]
Zeddicus: [reading the journey book] Lord Rahl is sending a message.
Richard: What's he saying?
Zeddicus: Four words.
Kahlan: "I will find you."

Richard: When you touched that man... what did you do to him?
[but she has no time for him, is on her way]
Richard: Hey!
Kahlan: [snarls] You wanna know what I did to that man? Try and follow me and you'll find out!