Dragons of Spring Dawning Quotes

“Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“Interesting." Raistlin coughed the word.
Tanis glanced at him sharply. "What is interesting?"
"I've never heard you lie before, Half-Elf," Raistlin said softly. " I find it...quite...fascinating.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“Then he heard a familiar voice.
"That's got 'em! Wonderfull spell, Fireball--"
"Fizban!" Tanis groaned.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“A chill penetrating wail of outrage screamed up from the depts of the Abyss. So loud and horrifying was it that all the citizens of Palanthas woke shruddering from even the deepest sleep and lay in their beds, paralyzed by fear, waiting for the end of the world. The guards on the the city walls could move neither hand nor foot. Shutting their eyes, they cowered in shadows, awaiting death. Babies wimpered in fear, dogs cringed and slunk beneath beds, cat's eyes gleamed.
The shriek sounded again, and a pale hand reached out from the Tower gates. A ghastly face, twisted in fury, floated in the dank air.
Raistlin did not move.
The hand drew near, the face promised him tortures of the Abyss, where he would be dragged for his great folly in daring the curse of the Tower. The skeletal hand touched Raistlin's heart. Then, trembling, it halted.
'Know this,' said Raistlin calmly, looking up at the Tower, pitching his voice so that it could be heard by those within. 'I am the master of the past and the present! My coming was foretold. For me, the gates will open.'
The skeletal hand shrank back and, with a slow sweeping motion of invitation, parted the darkness. The gates swung open upon silent hinges.
Raistlin passed through them without a glance at the hand or the pale visage that was lowered in reverence. As he entered, all the black and shapeless, dark and shadowy things dwelling within the Tower bowed in homage.
Then Raistlin stopped and looked around him.
'I am home,' he said.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“Flint snorted. The kender was beginning to make sence, a fact that caused the dwarf to shake his head and wonder if maybe he shouldn't lie down somewhere out in the sun.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“The darkness might conquer, but it could never extinguish hope. And though one candle, or many, might flicker and die, new candles would be lit from the old. Thus hope’s flame always burns, lighting the darkness until the coming of day.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“My waking and sleeping seem mixed together. I’m walking in a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“I will do anything to save
Laurana, he swore beneath his breath, clenching his fist. Anything! If it means sacrificing myself or—
He stopped. Would he really give up Berem? Would he really trade the Everman to the Dark Queen,
perhaps plunge the world into a darkness so vast it would never see light again?
No, Tanis told himself firmly. Laurana would die before she would be part of such a bargain.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“Adesso prentiti un po' di sonno", disse il nano, con quella che Tas definiva la Voce di Suo Nonno.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“Now her smile was like the bleakness of the sun in a cold winter sky. It gave light but no warmth, perhaps because there was no matching warmth in her eyes.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“I have seen love that, through its willingness to sacrifice everything, brought hope to the world. I have seen love that tried to overcome pride and a lust for power, but failed. The world is darker for its failure, but it is only as a cloud dims the sun. The sun—the love, still remains. Finally I have seen love lost in darkness. Love misplaced, misunderstood, because the lover did not know his—or her—own heart.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“For only the humans were endowed with the lust for power so strong that the raw passion of their nature could be easily corrupted.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“Don’t turn your back on me as you have turned it on the world!” Raistlin snarled. “Turn my back on the world …” the historian repeated softly and slowly, his head moving to face the mage. “Turn my back on the world!” Emotion rarely marred the surface of Astinus’s cold voice, but now anger struck the placid calm of his soul like a rock hurled into still water. “I? Turn my back on the world?” Astinus’s voice rolled around the library as the thunder had rolled previously. “I am the world, as you well know, old friend! Countless times I have been born! Countless deaths I have died! Every tear shed—mine have flowed! Every drop of blood spilled—mine has drained! Every agony, every joy ever felt has been mine to share! “I sit with my hand on the Sphere of Time, the sphere you made for me, old friend, and I travel the length and breadth of this world chronicling its history. I have committed the blackest deeds! I have made the noblest sacrifices. I am human, elf, and ogre. I am male and female. I have borne children. I have murdered children. I saw you as you were. I see you as you are. If I seem cold and unfeeling, it is because that is how I survive without losing my sanity! My passion goes into my words. Those who read my books know what it is to have lived in any time, in any body that ever walked this world!”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“(When the good holds sway) it breeds intolerance, rigidity, a belief that because I am right, those who don't believe as I do are wrong." - Palidine, Chief God of Good”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“We raise our children to leave us." - Caramon Majere”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“He had seen, but he had seen only what he wanted to see. How much of what happened in his life was like that? How much of what he saw was distorted by his own mind? He hadn’t understood Berem because he didn’t want to understand Berem!”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“the ancient embodiment of good! It breeds intolerance, rigidity, a belief that because I am right, those who don’t believe as I do are wrong.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“The ones we love most are those we trust least.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning

“Theros Ironfeld said once that—in all the years he had lived—he had never seen anything done out of love come to evil.”
― Margaret Weis, Dragons of Spring Dawning