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 matter?
It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.
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.
Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today pass you by. you are happy. need you know more than that?
There is a place within each of us where we cannot hide from the truth, where virtue sits as judge. To admit the truth of our actions is to go before that court, where process is irrelevant. Good and evil are intents, and intent is without excuse.
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?
The gods of the realms are many and varied – or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not – and care not – which.
Definitely they write themselves. It’s an amazing experience. It’s like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
The most common criticism that I’ve seen is that I write “popcorn fantasy”: lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I’m cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
I’m a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon’s breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.
I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.
Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunitty should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual. – Drizzt Do’Urden.
We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.
Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do’Urden.
I will always love you Drizzt Do’Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love.
A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie.
Artemis Entreri: Do not underestimate Jarlaxle. Many have; they all are dead.
First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. – Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do’Urden.