The Pirate King (Transitions, #2; The Legend of Drizzt, #21)

by R.A. Salvatore

“Death is a patient opponent.”

stasis is boredom and boredom is a wee piece of death itself.

What they valued most for their trouble and treasure was not the actual journey, but the memory of it that remained behind, the memory of it that they will carry to their graves.

Life is in the experiencing, to be sure, but it’s just as much in the recollection and in the telling!

For life is experience, and longevity is, in the end, measured by memory, and those with a thousand tales to tell have indeed lived longer than any who embrace the mundane.

“Are we to tolerate such injustice and malevolence out of some fear of an unknown future?”

“I don’t have to prove my worth and value to any but those I love,”