Pride invites you to soar to heights of personal triumph, but the wind is stronger at those heights and the footing, tentative. Farther, then, is the fall.
No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. And that, I fear,...
More importantly, we reduce the beauty of the universe around us to fit our hopes and to chase away our fears.
Mithral
Kessell tried to goad the sweat out of him. The wizard swayed the deadly candle tantalizingly about, causing the rays to shift back and forth. When he finally realized that he would not hear any whimp...
Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division.
Jarlaxle was Yvonnel’s son, her third-born son, who had been, as custom dictated, sacrificed upon the moment of his birth.
It’s for the shadows now, and the gray ones, and may the whole stinkin’ place fall in on their stinkin’ heads!
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards tha...
If this road, this series of stepping stones, leads nowhere, then so be it. I walk the road with friends, and so I have my home. —Drizzt Do’Urden
If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals? Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opp...
I stole your seed, the succubus said to his mind, and he could not deny it. They had done it to him several times in the years of his torment, had taken his seed and spawned alu-demons, Wulfgar’s chil...
I have learned that the ambition of those who follow selfish precepts is no more than a chaotic waste, a finite gain that must be followed by infinite loss. For there is indeed a harmony in the univer...
I don’t like the sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere.
I don't have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love, and that I do by being who I am, with confidence that those I love appreciate the good and accept the bad. Does anything else really m...
He turned with Wulfgar to leave, but the door burst in before them. Nice blade, elf! said Bruenor Battlehammer, standing in a puddle of seawater.
He snapped his scowl at Sali Dalib. As you delay! You will take us to the guildhouse of Pasha Pook, he reiterated, more insistently, and then you are dismissed. Pook? Oh, Pook, the merchant beamed.
For what is a rational being if not a choice? And there can be no evil, nor any good, without intent.
Every day is a chance to start over. Any day can be bad, surely, but any day can be good, can be great, and that promise, that potential, is a beautiful thing indeed.
Even as the stupid dwarves cut down a few of my lesser fighters, more warriors swarm to join the ranks of my army! Doom is upon you all, Drizzt Do’Urden! Akar Kessell is come! The fog cleared. With a...