127 Quotes by R. A. Salvatore

Sane is boring.

These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration.These were the friends who gave me my life.

...and a third had died in his bunk of natural causes-- for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life

How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.

A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie

Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden

I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.