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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8e2f919 | But in his years among the drow, Drizzt Do'Urden had learned to look beyond physical beauty and physical attraction. Drizzt did not separate the physical from the emotional. He was a superb fighter because he fought with his heart and would no sooner battle merely for the sake of battle than he would mate for the sake of the physical act. | love physical principles | R.A. Salvatore | |
| dd954ff | Arrogance convinced me that by sheer determination, I could conquer helplessness itself. Stubborn and foolish youth, I must admit, for when I look back on those years now, I see quite clearly that rarely did I stand alone. Always there were friends, true and dear, lending me support even when I believed I did not want it, and even when I did not realize they were doing it. | friendship motivation strength | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 4b23857 | That was the danger of nostalgia, Drizzt realized. One often remembered the good of the past while forgetting the troubles. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 60bea57 | He hates me because my way of life shows his to be an empty lie, | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| f973a8c | That is the honest nature of friendship. That is when it becomes sincere, and not self-serving. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 9c9055c | the true warrior understands that while one is learning how to use a sword, one should also be learning why and when to use a sword. To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 3bb2152 | 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 universe, a concordant singing of common weal. To join that song, one must find inner harmony, must find the notes that ring true. There is one other point to be made about that truth: Evil creatures cannot sing. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 6d70282 | Nothin's what it seems, drow!" Bruenor declared. "Nothin'! Ye try to follow what ye know, ye know? But then ye find that ye know not what ye thought ye knowed! Thought a dog'd be tastin' good - looked good enough - but now me belly's cursing me every move!" | regret | R.A. Salvatore | |
| ede0a16 | Are you surprised by anything anymore? ~ Artemis Entreri | surprise | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 534eee4 | Catti-brie had to believe that now, recalling the scene in light of the drow's words. She had to believe that her love for Wulfgar had been real, very real, and not misplaced, that he was all she had thought him to be. Now she could. For the first time since Wulfgar's death, Cattie-brie could remember him without pangs of guilt, without the fears that, had he lived, she would not have married him. Because Drizzt was right; Wulfgar would hav.. | love | R.A. Salvatore | |
| a8ac916 | it is a valuable lesson that should often be reinforced--that many who are faced with impending death, a disease that will likely take them in a year's time, for example, quite often insist that their affliction is the best thing that ever happened to them. It takes the immediacy of mortality to remind them to watch the sunrise and the sunset, to note the solitary flower among the rocks, to appreciate those loved ones around them, to taste .. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 222e51d | Tell us of this Calim Desert," said Wulfgar. "What is a desert?" "A barren land," replied Deudermont grimly, not wanting to understate the challenge that would be before them if they chose that course. "An empty wasteland of blowing, stinging sands and hot winds. Where monsters rule over men, and many an unfortunate traveler has crawled to his death to be picked clean by vultures." The four friends shrugged away the captain's grim descripti.. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 1ad14d4 | He's not wanting to fight," she assured the captain. "He is driven by curiosity?" Deudermont asked. "By loyalty," Catti-brie answered. "And nothing more. Drizzt is bound by friendship to ye and to the crew, and if a simple contest against the man will make for an easier sail, then he's up to the fight. But there is no curiosity in Drizzt. No stupid pride. He's not for caring who's the better at swordplay." Deudermont nodded and his expressi.. | pride | R.A. Salvatore | |
| e16da27 | Catti-brie continued to stare at the drow as the wizards walked up. The woman did not know what to make of Drizzt's cryptic answers. Drizzt had let Tarnheel win, she figured, or at least had allowed the man to fight to a draw. For some reason the young woman did not understand, she didn't want to think that Tarnheel had actually beaten Drizzt; she didn't want to think that anyone could beat Drizzt. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 372475b | to tell me how to behave. I do not want a god to guide my movements and actions--nay. Nor do I want a god's rules to determine that which I know to be right or to outlaw that which I know to be wrong. For I surely do not need to fear the retribution of a god to keep my path aligned with what is in my heart. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| dad7214 | Without satisfaction, he will find no contentment, and without contentment, he will find no joy. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| ac1af31 | when all is a facade, wound within webs of deception, the truth is what you make of it. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 076419d | Those who rely on certainties are certain to be disappointed | entreri nothing-is-for-sure sellswords | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 4f1d271 | I have ridden a dragon!" Tiago protested. "I have eaten a dragon," Gromph replied. I have slept with a dragon--two! Jarlaxle thought, but did not say, though he couldn't avoid a grin at the pleasant memory of the wonderful copper dragon sisters, Tazmikella and Ilnezhara." | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 6732586 | For whatever we do in our lives, discipline and control over our own actions ultimately measure the level of our success. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 501c80e | Driest displayed the intricate hand and facial combinations of the silent drow code, and he briefly entertained the notion of teaching the language to Belwar. The deep gnome promptly burst into loud and rolling laughter. His dark eyes looked incredulously at Drizzt, and he led the drow's gaze down to the ends of his arms. With a hammer and a pickaxe for hands, the svirfneblin could hardly muster enough gestures to make the effort worthwhile.. | drizzt | R.A. Salvatore | |
| eceffd8 | Make yer laughs where ye can, little one, because yer tears'll chase ye and catch ye where they will. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 54786cd | So many times have I heard the common lament, "If only I could go back to that age, knowing what I now know!" Those words amuse me profoundly, for in truth, the lament should be, "If only I could reclaim the lust and the joy I knew then!" | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 378e300 | I will continue to judge on the content of character and not the shape or color of a mortal coil. My heart demands no less of me, my spiritual peace must be held as the utmost goal. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| d82fc86 | You are in my very soul, tormenting me," Anakin went on, not a bit of falseness in his tone." | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| cf976e8 | As you will," Malice agreed, not surprised at Zak's desire to prove her wrong. Zak placed little value in wizardry, preferring the hilt of a blade to the crystal rod component of a lightning bolt. Zak moved to stand before Drizzt and handed him the coin. "Flip it." Drizzt shrugged, wondering what this vague conversation between his mother and the weapons master was all about. Until now, he had heard nothing of any future profession being pl.. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| f3a7a46 | I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you." | apifera-farm donkey healing katherine-dunn misfits-of-love | Katherine Dunn | |
| 432e9c0 | In The Dynamics of Creation, Anthony Storr, the British psychiatrist, contends that an individual who "fears love almost as much as he fears hatred" may turn to creative activity not only out of an impulse to experience aesthetic pleasure, or the delight of exercising an active mind, but also to defend himself against anxiety stimulated by conflicting demands for detachment and human contact.21" | Sylvia Nasar | ||
| 3900db1 | Real life, however, is very different from school sums. There is usually more than one answer. Some answers are much better than others: they cost less, are more reliable or are more easy to implement. There is no reason at all for supposing that the first answer has to be the best one. | Edward de Bono | ||
| f97b543 | pochti vsichko mozhe da b'de dop'lnitelno oprosteno. | Едуард-де-Боно edward-de-bono творческо-мислене | Edward de Bono | |
| 3f3cdf8 | las fallas deben corregirse, las debilidades deben suprimirse y los problemas, resolverse. | Edward De Bono | ||
| e49ded1 | Kecantikan adalah sesuatu yang dapat diapresiasi oleh orang lain. | Edward De Bono | ||
| d1fe241 | The error was not yours, Somerled," Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man." | lesson manhood | Juliet Marillier | |
| 68b5e49 | Who would awaken the past? It shines like a sunrise And cuts like a fine blade. | regret sunrise | Juliet Marillier | |
| 7a281c1 | It was quiet; so quiet. Didn't these people know how to grieve for a good man? Didn't they know how to weep, and scream with rage, and curse the powers of darkness in their sorrow? Didn't they know how to hold one another, and dry one another's tears, and tell tales of the things he had done, and of what he had been, to see him safe on his way? Where were the great fires, and the toasts in strong ale, and the scent of burning juniper? | grief-and-loss | Juliet Marillier | |
| 8fe8366 | Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge. A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older. This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber. | childhood fragile memories nostalgia preserved quote quotes | Juliet Marillier | |
| ba68fe8 | The two of them are like open books, they speak the truth at the risk of their own lives, and when they keep silent their thoughts blaze like a beacon from their eyes. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 03b5e1d | You are a child no longer, whatever you might wish. You are a woman with a woman's body, and you do not think or feel as you did back there at Sevenwaters, when you ran wild in the forest and the trees spread their canopy to shelter you. Men will look at you. Come to terms with it, Sorcha. You cannot hide forever. They will look at you with desire in their eyes. You were taken against your will, and it damaged you. But life goes on. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 15e2368 | His heart and mine added a rhythm all their own. We turned and turned, and with every turning we breathed a little more quickly and held on a little more tightly, and when we came back to the place we started, we stopped dancing and stood with our arms around each other, holding on as if we would never let go, not if the sky fell and the whole world came to an end. | love | Juliet Marillier | |
| 680e074 | The rain accompanied Faolan as he travelled inland to the crossroads where he must at last make a choice of ways. He tried to fix his mind on the decision ahead, but thoughts of Deord intruded: Deord strong and serene as guard to a solitary, gifted captive; Deord devoting all he had left, after Breakstone, to keeping that wrongly imprisoned man safe from his own brother and from himself. Deord, at the end, fighting one last, heroic battle a.. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| a6cf215 | Part of me has turned wild, and another part's turned dark as endless night, and I'm not going to change back just because someone says I must. | Juliet Marillier | ||
| 96b534f | Human memory is a strange thing," he observed. "How it comes and goes. How sometimes folk tuck the past away so deep they forget it's there at all. The human mind is full of byways, dead ends, locked chambers. Strongboxes guarding matters too painful to be brought into the light; dusty corners where items considered too trivial are tossed away. You'll remember one day. And if you do not, perhaps it is no matter." | Juliet Marillier | ||
| a4d3d78 | That's what it is to be a hero," Riordan says. "It's fighting on even when you're hopelessly outnumbered. It's seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It's doing the very best you can." | courage hero hope | Juliet Marillier | |
| 9f89bb9 | But there are two sides to every fight. It starts from something small, a chance remark, a gesture made lightly. It grows from there. Both sides can be unjust. Both can be cruel. | Juliet Marillier |