The Last Threshold (Neverwinter, #4; The Legend of Drizzt, #26)

by R.A. Salvatore

Had his life become nothing more than a series of distractions until at long last he would find his own grave?

For the road that I find before me determines my actions and not the other way around.

There is no greater shackle than self-deception. A man who denies his heart, either through fear of personal consequence—whether regarding physical jeopardy, or self-doubt, or simply of being ostracized—is not free. To go against your values and tenets, against that which you know is right and true, creates a prison stronger than adamantine bars and thick stone walls. Every instance of putting expediency above the cries of conscience throws another heavy chain out behind, an anchor to drag forevermore.