Timeless Quotes

“Ava’til natha pasaison zhah ques po finnud ebries herm. “History is a poem where all lines rhyme.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“was”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“when he knew he was caught,”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“were”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“I expect that you are about to learn the choices before you,” Catti-brie answered. “What you do with those choices will be up to you. Not me, and not Drizzt.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“and found love—true love.” He paused to share a look with Catti-brie. “A partner to walk with me throughout this amazing journey.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“Like taking a human for a wife?” “That is no longer up for discussion,” Drizzt said coldly. “She is my world. Here and now and forever. As will be our child. Our child.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“The times grow less dark for all the races, because within the culture, too, is memory, an understanding of what works and what does not. When those lessons are forgotten, the circle winds its way backward, and when they are remembered, society moves forward, and with each cycle, with each affirmation of that which is good and that which is evil, the starting point of the next lesson is a bit closer to goodness.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“The occurrences appear with alarming regularity. Every seventy to one hundred years, there comes a time of great strife. Oh, there are other events, often tragic, from time to time, but these are often anomalies, it seems, the rogue acts of foolish kings. The events of which I speak appear more to be a maturation of devastation, a perilous journey of thousands of tiny steps that culminates when the last of those humans who remember have died away.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“A dark path is walked in tiny steps.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“Close no options, of course,” Shakti instructed her. “We can always return. We are on neither side, and on both, of course.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“You’re not half as clever as you think you are,” Zaknafein remarked. “Or twice as clever as I ought to be,” Jarlaxle added with a grin.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“Perception is reality, Drizzt Do’Urden,” Yvonnel stated. “There is no objective truth?” “Of course there is! But until a falsehood is uncovered, the reality is what you perceive it to be. You cannot separate the two without a reveal. That you tried to do so was your madness.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“Everyone needs a hobby,” the weapon master said with a shrug.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“How could they know more about Jarlaxle than Jarlaxle knew of them? It never worked that way!”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“Devils were more predictable than demons, which generally were little more than vile killing machines with less subtlety than a trebuchet throwing baskets of fire into a village.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“For the greatest teaching of the monks of the Yellow Rose is the ability to forgive, wholly, your own shortcomings, to accept your physical being as a vessel to a spirit ever seeking perfection. Such true acceptance of oneself, of limitations and weaknesses and failings, allows one to proceed without becoming hindered by guilt and undue hesitance. To hear the echoes of the past. To anticipate the notes of the future. To stride more boldly. And so, scimitars high, I go, boldly and with a smile.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“The drink is only called terrible because it is not rare and therefore reserved for the haughty fools,” Jarlaxle explained. “And the women are only called ugly because they are common. And that is precisely their charm, because their passion is honest and honestly earned, and for the sake of the passion alone.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“Jarlaxle was Yvonnel’s son, her third-born son, who had been, as custom dictated, sacrificed upon the moment of his birth.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“I am pondering how best to respond, for the truthful answer is one more complicated than you would think.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“Your confidence is inspiring,” said the captured weapon master. “Because it is always backed by cleverness.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“Four questions,” Entreei agreed. “But it may take some time. A lot of good men could die giving this information.”
Wigglefingers nodded, but then scrunched up how face as he considered the odd phrasing. “You mean ‘getting.’”
“I did not misspeak.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“Eight pins?” Regis whispered, marveling at the magnificent contraption— and at his own skill, for he suspected that there weren’t five burglars on the Sword Coast who could have picked this lock.
Well, not counting Calimpost, of course, where thievery was the city’s celebrated pastime.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“And where is Jarlaxle?”
“Secure and waiting your instructions.”
“In the Clawrift?”
“He is secure.”
“Is he even on the Material Plane?”
“Where else would be be?”
“Does one ever know with Jarlaxle?”
Arathis Hume conceded that with a shrug.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“Pray for me, Arathis signed. But not to Lolth! Despite the tense situation, Jarlaxle managed a smile at that, a saying that was becoming litany for his band of mercenaries, all of them outcasts from the matriarchal society of Menzoberranzan and the misandry of the Spider Queen.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless

“It is not hard to look back on history and see atrocities committed on a grand scale that horrify the sensibilities of the folk of this day but were simply accepted or deemed necessary by folk in days more superstitious and unenlightened.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Timeless