Richard Cypher quotes from Legend of the Seeker

Richard

[to Kahlan] You loved me across time.

Richard

[to Rahl] The only reason you wanna save the world is to save yourself.

Richard Cypher

Don't you get it? I'm not what you want me to be. Maybe all those years ago you saved the wrong child.

No. You are the true Seeker. If anybody failed, it was me telling myself this storm would never come. Kahlan was right. I should have prepared you. What happened to your father is only the beginning of Rahl's evil. But you can stop him. You and only you.

Richard

How?

In this life, we cannot go back. Only forward. You have a great destiny ahead of you, Richard Cypher, if you're willing to accept it.

Richard Cypher, though your road will be long and the outcome unknown, will you undertake this journey?

Richard

I will.

Will you leave behind your friends and all that you have known?

Richard

I will.

Though the forces of evil have sworn to bring about your death, still will you go on?

Richard

[Pauses and looks at Kahlan] I will.

Then will you accept the name of the Seeker?

Richard

[Pauses and looks at the Sword of Truth] I will.

Then I, First Wizard Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, so name you.

Lesson Number One, Seeker: Sometimes to gain ground you need to slow down.

Richard Cypher

That doesn't make sense.

Never expect sense from a wizard.

Not on an empty stomach

Richard

You are in luck, my friend's wife makes the best soup in Hartland

It can never be, not with her.

Richard

[Looks at Kahlan] Why are you telling me this?

Because you concentrate on finding Fane. Keep your eyes on the trail up ahead, not on her posterior. Lesson Number Two, Seeker: Clear your mind of what was and will be. See only the task that is.

Denna

Did you not feel my Agiel? The harder you fight, the more painful its magic will become. And after I've finished training you with it, you'll do anything to please me. Anything. And nothing will please me more than to see the Seeker, stand at the gates of the People's Palace, and there, before the multitudes, take the hand of Lord Rahl and pledge his undying love and fealty to him.

Richard Cypher

I'm going to take that Sword, and I'm going to kill him with it. After I kill you.

Denna

I do enjoy a challenge. Shall we begin?

Richard Cypher

Mistress Denna, would you allow Constance to train me tomorrow?

Denna

[beating him] Why are you asking for Constance!? You prefer her touch to mine? Obviously I've been too easy on you! Why do you ask for her? Answer me!

Richard Cypher

Because it hurts you to use the Agiel. I don't want you to suffer any more because of me.

Darken Rahl

How I missed the simplest pleasures of life.

Richard

Enjoy them while you can. Someday, whether in a week or fifty years, you will be dead again, and you will face the keeper's wrath.

Darken Rahl

You are mistaken. When the veil is repaired and the natural order of the underworld is restored, I will bask in the Creator's light, along with you and the Mother Confessor.

Richard

You have killed countless innocent people. How do you possibly believe that the Creator is going to reward you?

Darken Rahl

When I seal the rift, not only will I be protecting the lives today, I will be ensuring the lives of future generations.