Ultimately, the claim goes to the strongest, does it not? In the final sort of things, I mean. He who remains alive, remains alive to write the histories in a light favorable to him and his cause. Surely as worldly as you are, you know well the histories of the world, Master Wingham. Surely you recognize that armies carrying banners are almost always thieves – until they win.
What place is this that is my world; what dark coil has my spirit embodied?” he whispered the angry disclaimer that had always been a part of him. “In light, I see my skin as black; in darkness, it glows white in the heat of this rage I cannot dismiss.
Nothing pains a liar more than when an opponent turns one of his lies into truth.
We like to keep what’s our own to keep, especially from little thieves with little fingers and big mouths.
Though many would seek short cuts to the truth, there is no way around the simplest of tenets: hardship begets achievement and achievement begets joy – true joy, and the sense of accomplishment that defines who we are as thinking beings.
Every wrinkle is earned, my love. Day by day, we spend our time together, and the changes that come will be well earned. In your heart you know that I love you, and I have no doubt but that my love will grow with the passage of years. I.
Spirit. In every language in all the Realms, surface and Underdark, in every time and every place, the word has a ring of strength and determination. It is the hero’s strength, the mother’s resilience and the poor man’s armor. It cannot be broken and it cannot be taken away.
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.
It never ceased to amaze him how most nobles considered themselves so much better than the people they ruled, even though that rule was always no more than an accident of birth.
Cats?” Bruenor gawked at Regis. “Ye brought cats?” Regis smiled and shifted his head in his hands. “You know a better way to get rid of mice?
Keep him well,” the dwarf finished with a wink, and he slammed the door with a bang. “He hates my door,” the wizard lamented.
Those who aspire to less accomplish less. There can be no doubt. It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.
Neverwinter Wood.
Fie these gods! What beings are these who would play so cruelly with the sensibilities of rational, conscientious mortals?
The boy nodded, unperturbed that his father, his mentor, could always find fault, even in success. The boy knew that his beloved father did so only because it forced him to strive for perfection. And in a dangerous galaxy, perfection allowed for survival. The boy loved his father even more for caring enough to criticize.
How often do we allow often irrational fears to paralyze us in our movements.
Because when we reach, when we seek that place we have only seen in our imagination, we threaten the order of things, and threaten most especially the place of those who have found a better roost.
For what are we left with if there remains no mystery? What hope might we find if we know all of the answers?
One of the most common truths of life is that we all take for granted things that simply are. Whether a spouse, a friend, a family, or a home, after enough time has passed, that person, place, or situation becomes the accepted norm of our lives. It is not until we confront the unexpected, not until the normal is no more, that we truly come to appreciate what once we had. I.
I have always found those who take the easier road, when they know they should be walking the more difficult one, to be cowards,” Robillard.