Top 160 R.A. Salvatore Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

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102. “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.”

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103. “Magic is neither good nor evil. It merely is.”

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104. “How ironic it is that our instincts often run exactly opposite from what we truly desire for those we love.”

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105. “He was born a slave, but he was not born to be a slave.”

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106. “As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. It did not take me long, however, to discover one nemesis that I could neither defeat nor flee. It followed me wherever I went – indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in around me. My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors.”

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107. “No, what keeps Captain Deudermont safe is his ability to show respect for anyone he meets. He is a man of charm, who holds well his personal pride. He grants respect at the outset of a meeting and continues that respect until the person forfeits it. This is very different than the way most people view the world. Most people insist that respect has to be earned, and with many, I have come to observe, earning it is no easy task!”

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108. “Regweld is really a fine wizard,” he continued, patting the shoulder again. “And his ideas for crossbreeding a horse and a frog are not without merit; never mind the explosion! Alchemy shops can be replaced!”

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109. “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.”

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110. “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.”

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111. “I will never forget that you came for me, Drizzt Do’Urden,” Entreri called after him, and for some reason he didn’t quite yet understand, those words filled Drizzt’s heart.”

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112. “I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn’t excite me and didn’t even remotely connect to the realities of my life.”

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113. “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.”

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114. “No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.”

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115. “Nothing pains a liar more than when an opponent turns one of his lies into truth.”

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116. “Our conscience is our salvation. Our questioning of everything, of right and wrong, of action and consequence, is what defines our purpose.”

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117. “I came to learn that sometimes the most difficult battles are the ones we are forced not to fight.”

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118. “Without satisfaction, he will find no contentment, and without contentment, he will find no joy.”

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119. “Make yer laughs where ye can, little one, because yer tears’ll chase ye and catch ye where they will.”

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120. “Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.”

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121. “To bask in the present, care nothing about the future, and forget the past.”

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122. “If this road, this series of stepping stones, leads nowhere, then so be it. I walk the road with friends, and so I have my home. – Drizzt Do’Urden.”

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123. “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.”

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124. “Keep him well,” the dwarf finished with a wink, and he slammed the door with a bang. “He hates my door,” the wizard lamented.”

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125. “No, I say. Because I cannot. I cannot dismiss that which is in my heart and conscience. I am a creature of intelligence and reason. I know what actions please me and put me at ease, and which pain me.”

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126. “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!”

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127. “I measure my success in life by the added value my presence brought to those whom I loved, and who loved me.”

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128. “The world is a dark place,” Kipper replied. “But when friends join hands, it lightens.”

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129. “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.”

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130. “For what are we left with if there remains no mystery? What hope might we find if we know all of the answers?”

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131. “In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so competent that we cannot even truly predict where is will lead us.”

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132. “There are those who cannot see the stains on their souls. Some lack the capacity to look in the glass of introspection, perhaps, and others alter reality without and within. It.”

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133. “To think that all we’ve known to be true is not necessarily an absolute is unsettling and almost incomprehensible, and so to walk the road of acceptance and peace often takes more courage than the way of the warrior.”

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134. “Perhaps we will meet again and do battle, and if I kill him, I will shed no tears for him. Not for who he is, at least, but quite possibly, I will cry for who this marvelous warrior might have become. If I kill him, I will be crying for myself.”

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135. “They broke the hug and shared a tremendous kiss, all sloppy and loud, full of fun and full of lust, as only dwarves could do.”

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136. “It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.”

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137. “This is my fear, of a life wasted, of a cause misbegotten, of a belief that is, in the end, an empty and unattainable ideal, the foolish designs of an innocent child who believed there could be more.”

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138. “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.”

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139. “We seek goals as if their achievement will grant magical happiness and unending fulfillment, but is that ever the case?”

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140. “Only when we admit to our failures and recognize our weaknesses can we rise above them.”

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141. “Always I seem doomed to protect those I most despise,” Entreri whispered.”

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142. “Fie these gods! What beings are these who would play so cruelly with the sensibilities of rational, conscientious mortals?”

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143. “The unusual experiences are those that create the memories, and a tenday of memories is more life than a year of routine.”

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144. “There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it,” Jacen said. “We are not galactic police.”

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145. “It is difficult to realize that you cannot win every battle for every friend.”

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146. “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.”

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147. “A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself,” Entreri explained curtly, “if he can impart the belief that some god or other speaks through him. It is the greatest deception in all the world and one embraced by kings and lords, while the minor lying thieves on the streets or Calimport and other cities lose their tongues for so attempting to coax the purses of others.”

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148. “How often do we allow often irrational fears to paralyze us in our movements.”

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149. “Under the dark evening sky, the skyscrapers seemed to become gigantic natural monoliths, and all the super-sized structures that so dominated the city, that so marked Coruscant as a monument to the ingenuity of the reasoning species, seemed somehow the mark of folly, of futile pride striving against the vastness and majesty beyond the grasp of any mortal.”

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150. “Tis the trap of competitive humanity, you see. Few men are content if others have more to be content about.”

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