Rise of the King Quotes

“to tell me how to behave. I do not want a god to guide my movements and actions—nay. Nor do I want a god’s rules to determine that which I know to be right or to outlaw that which I know to be wrong. For I surely do not need to fear the retribution of a god to keep my path aligned with what is in my heart.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Rise of the King

“For there is no perfect strike, no perfect defense, no perfect form. The word itself defines a state that cannot be improved, but such is not the case, is never the case with muscle and mind and technique. So there is no state of perfection, but to seek it is not folly, nay, for it is that very seeking, the relentless journey, which defines the quality of the warrior.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Rise of the King

“I have ridden a dragon!” Tiago protested. “I have eaten a dragon,” Gromph replied. I have slept with a dragon—two! Jarlaxle thought, but did not say, though he couldn’t avoid a grin at the pleasant memory of the wonderful copper dragon sisters, Tazmikella and Ilnezhara.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Rise of the King

“Make yer laughs where ye can, little one, because yer tears’ll chase ye and catch ye where they will.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Rise of the King

“The journey is more important than the goal, for while the goal might be worthwhile, the journey is, in fact, the thread of your life.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Rise of the King

“For I do not want a god to tell me how to behave. I do not want a god to guide my movements and actions—nay. Nor do I want a god’s rules to determine that which I know to be right or to outlaw that which I know to be wrong. For I surely do not need to fear the retribution of a god to keep my path aligned with what is in my heart.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Rise of the King

“Play for the day,” he told himself. “Win the day, each day, and so you will win the war.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Rise of the King

“We seek goals as if their achievement will grant magical happiness and unending fulfillment, but is that ever the case?”
― R.A. Salvatore, Rise of the King

“If we measure victory as a condition better than what was in place before the conflict, then there will be no winners.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Rise of the King

“Silverbell, and his human companion Doughty called back to her with a responding, “Heigh-ho!” and lifted their bows in salute. Aleina noted the bandages wrapping the fingers of the duo, digits rubbed skinless by a thousand bowshots a day. She grimly nodded as she rode on, taking heart that most of those arrows had probably found a mark. On her last trip to the city’s outer wall, she had seen a frost giant lying dead in a heap, its body so thick with arrows that it more resembled a giant porcupine than any humanoid creature. Aleina had noted the fletching on some of those arrows, and had recognized several at least that had come from Plenerond Silverbell’s quiver. King Firehelm awaited her in the city’s grand central citadel, a fortress within the fortress. As she rode up to the main door of that massive and impregnable keep, she spotted the king on a balcony, hands gripping an iron rail as he stared out over the city courtyard, the walls, and the bloody fields. He took note of her and looked down with an approving nod, but his eyes went right back to the fields, to the carnage. His shoulders had slumped under the weight of it all, Aleina thought. She handed the reins to an attendant at the door and bounded up the stairs to the king’s chamber, entering”
― R.A. Salvatore, Rise of the King

“bowshots”
― R.A. Salvatore, Rise of the King

“JOURNEY”
― R.A. Salvatore, Rise of the King