The best tests of character and commitment always came in moments of great stress and the most revealing moments often came in times when a person was pushed to anger.
That was the danger of nostalgia, Drizzt realized. One often remembered the good of the past while forgetting the troubles.
Take us to the guildhouse of Pasha Pook, Drizzt said, getting to the point, wanting to be done with his business and out of Calimport, then you are dismissed. Sali Dalib paled at the request. Pasha Po...
She has found the truth of competition, that there is no better challenge to be found than one a person can make with herself, that the personal competition outweighs any other, and by great magnitude...
Profound pain is often the unavoidable reality of conscious existence.
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.
Or because I believe in something greater still, Drizzt said. Something that speaks to justice and that which is right.
Only when we admit to our failures and recognize our weaknesses can we rise above them.
Only surprise delayed Regis’s immediate squeals of joy when Bruenor opened his gray eyes and winked.
Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.
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,...
Never does a star grace this land with a poet’s light of twinkling mysteries, nor does the sun send to here its rays of warmth and life.
More importantly, we reduce the beauty of the universe around us to fit our hopes and to chase away our fears.
Mithral
Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen enemy, cutting at our hearts and stealing more than our strength; stealing our will. For wha...
It is not just boredom that propels my steps along paths unknown, but a firm belief that the guiding principle of life must be a search not for what is, but for what could be.
In the heart, there is no sting greater than watching the struggles of one you love, knowing that only through such strife will that person grow and recognize the potential of his or her existence.
If I offer my hand to another and he takes it, do I not also have his hand? We are stronger together, but only if the bond of friendship travels from both hands.
Icewind Dale. Windswept passes and forbidding glaciers stand at the top of the world. Below them, in the cold valley, an evil force broods: the magic of Crenshinibon, the Crystal Shard.Now dwarf, barb...
I had built this bubble around us. Around all of us-you, me, Chewie, the kids, Luke, Mara, even Lando. Heck, even the stupid droids. We were all in it, you know. In it and safe, a cozy family. Nothing...