All my life, I have been searching for a home," the draw said quietly. "All my life, I have been wanting more than that which was offered to me, more than Menzoberranzan, more than friends who stood beside me out of personal gain. I always thought home would be a place, and indeed it is, but not in any physical sense. It is a place in here," Drift said, putting a hand to his heart and turning back to look upon his companions. "It is a feeling given by true friends. I know this now, and know that I am home."" But ye're off to Cartoon," Cattle-brie said softly." And so're we!" Bruno bellowed. Drizzt smiled at them, laughed aloud. "If circumstances will not allow me to remain at home," the ranger said firmly, "then I will simply take my home with me!

— R.A. Salvatore

A man inferior with the blade or with his thoughts can still so elevate himself," Enter 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 Cal import and other cities lose their tongues for so attempting to coax the purses of others.

— R.A. Salvatore

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. ... These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me 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.

— R.A. Salvatore

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

— R.A. Salvatore

But in his years among the draw, Drift Do'Burden had learned to look beyond physical beauty and physical attraction. Drift 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.

— R.A. Salvatore

But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection of the partner’s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains.

— R.A. Salvatore

But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of a woman who had just begun to open her eyes to the wide world.

— R.A. Salvatore

But the streets need cleaning, brother," Group said. "That is why the gods gave us magic, brother," Variable replied in the same smug tone. "To perform the mundane tasks of life.

— R.A. Salvatore

But what of faith? What of fidelity and loyalty? Complete trust? Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the heart and the soul. If a person needs proof of god's existence, then the very notion of spirituality is diminished into sensuality, and we have reduced what is holy into what is logical.-Drift Do'burden

— R.A. Salvatore

Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Burden

— R.A. Salvatore