Self is the only prisonthat can ever bindthe soul. —Henry Van Dyke
Raistlin ran to Fizban’s side. Now is the time for the casting of the fireball, Old One, he panted. It is? Fizban’s face filled with delight. Wonderful! How does it go? Don’t you remember! Raistlin pr...
Over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it
Yet without the darkness, said Palin suddenly, we would never be aware that the stars exist.
Yes, I am smarter than you—all of you. And someday I will prove it! Someday you—with all your strength and charm and good looks—you, all of you, will call me master!
Say that we’re moving at the speed of light.… Impossible, of course, if you believe physicists. Which I don’t, by the way. Physicists don’t believe in wizards—a fact that I, being a wizard, find highl...
It is written in the Disks of Mishakal that evil, by its very nature, will always turn in upon itself. Thus it becomes self-defeating.
To remind us that our lives are made up of blank sheets waiting to be filled, Lillith replied. The book of life is open when we are born, and it closes with our death. We write in it continually, but...
Shuddering Tanis stepped back. Raistlin gave the drawstring on the top of the bag a quick jerk, snapping it shut. Then, glancing at them distrustfully, he slipped the bag within his robes, secreting i...
Hope lives. No matter the mistakes we make, no matter our blunders and misunderstandings, no matter the grief and sorrow and loss, no matter how deep the darkness, hope lives.
Do not go to others for the answers. Look in your own heart, search your own faith. You will either find the answer or come to see that the answer is with the gods themselves, not with man.
The people must acquire faith in themselves before they are ready to believe in anything beyond themselves.
The old dwarf drew himself up. His height was no longer impressive: the bowed back would not straighten, the legs could no longer support the body without assistance. But Drugar, towering over his fat...
The magic will not solve your problems. It will only add to them. The magic will not make people like you. It will increase their distrust. The magic will not ease your pain. It will twist and burn in...
For only the humans were endowed with the lust for power so strong that the raw passion of their nature could be easily corrupted.
But he could not help wondering, as he did, that if he was so damn wise, why was his life in such a mess?
There comes a time, Laurana, when you’ve got to risk your life for something you believe in—something that means more than life itself.
Tas stared mournfully at the body of the goblin he killed. It had fallen facedown, his dagger buried underneath. I’ll get it for you, Tanis offered, preparing to roll the body over. No. Tas made a fac...
Haplo: ‘single, alone.’ That is your name and your destiny, said his father, his finger rough and hard on Haplo’s chest. Your mother and I have defeated the odds thrown for us already. Every Gate we p...
Being around humans over a long period of time taught me to understand that their impatience and ambition and their constant need for hurry, hurry, hurry is just their way of attempting to outrace the...