The Last Threshold Quotes

“Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Last Threshold

“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.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Last Threshold

“Why do ye care," elf? Athrogate asked him. "I do not know," came Jarlaxle's honest response.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Last Threshold

“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.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Last Threshold

“If a God, any God, is deemed to represent the Universal & divine truth, then once one finds & truly embraces that truth, he/she becomes in harmony with God. To hold it any other way is to attribute to supposed Gods petty failings like jealousy & bittermess. If that is the case, then why would I hold forth a name embodying that which is in my heart when doing so would only reduce a truth I call divine to a level of mortal frailty?”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Last Threshold

“Magic is neither good nor evil. It merely is.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Last Threshold

“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.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Last Threshold

“The best tests of character and commitment always came in moments of great stress and the most revealing moments often came in times when a person was pushed to anger.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Last Threshold

“a person could always pretend that some future event would solve many more problems than the realization of such an event could ever bring. Drizzt”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Last Threshold

“Where, I wonder and I fear, does hubris end and reality overwhelm? Is this the danger of reaching too high, or am I bounded by fear that will hold me too low? Once”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Last Threshold

“It is not the world that has changed, merely my understanding of it.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Last Threshold