Glacier's Edge Quotes

“Take him home, Kimmuriel. He is piquing the interest of too many now, and I fear his antics might lead them into situations that will confuse the entire collective!”

Another joke? An exclamation spoken aloud and with passion? Kimmuriel had been desperately worried about subjecting his dearest friend to the intrusions of the mind flayers.

Perhaps he should have been more worried about subjecting the illithids to the sensibilities of Jarlaxle.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“To become a drider again was the worst torture she could imagine. Every day, every movement, was pain. No thought independent of the eternal shackles—a mere notion of turning against any drow loyal to Lolth would send wracking agony through a drider. There was no free will, no beauty, no hope, no cessation of the mental anguish and torment. It was a curse that did not lessen with time, a curse against which neither the mind nor the body could numb itself.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“The loss of Jarlaxle and the others, which seemed more likely than not, was hitting him harder than any loss he had ever known. He had been more outraged at the fall of House Oblodra those many decades before, but even with that catastrophe, even with the loss of his mother and family, he had not felt like this. For now, for the first time in his centuries of life, Kimmuriel Oblodra realized a profound sense of sadness, a level of grief that wouldn’t even allow him to plot or scheme around it, whether to find some manner of revenge or to better protect himself from any repercussions. None of that even seemed to matter at this time.
He was just sad. Nakedly so.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“Weirdly, Callidae had freed him of his fear that because he was drow, there was perhaps something wrong about him, something within him that even he could not truly trust. Callidae had shown him that Drizzt was not a fraud, and was not unique among the drow people—theories that both the controlling drow matrons and the prejudiced non-drow constantly advanced. It was Lolth, not the drow.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“Thus, when Jarlaxle yelled, Drizzt looked to him and followed his gaze, and heard in the rogue’s voice a level of panic and terror so very rare coming from that one. He didn’t question, he didn’t hesitate.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“Hehehe,” Jarlaxle laughed in his best Pikel imitation. “Doo-dad!”

“I will leave you here forevermore,” Kimmuriel warned the annoying mercenary.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“Oh no, dear sister,” purred Ilnezhara.
“I think the drow has a dancer’s chance.”

“A bet, then, sister!” Tazmikella said. “If Drizzt wins, you may take him for your own physical . . . competition. If Kane wins, I’ll eat the drow!”

“Splendid!” Ilnezhara agreed.

“They’re joking,” Drizzt told Kane as the two walked away toward a flat and open bit of ground, and he certainly hoped he was correct.

“One never knows with dragons,” the monk replied.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“His mind went back to his early days with Artemis Entreri, when they had been avowed enemies. Throughout many years, the assassin remained obsessed with battling Drizzt—Entreri clutched a self-destructive need to prove himself better than Drizzt. The drow had called him out on that unhealthy fixation, even after he had come to understand that Entreri needed to prove he was the better fighter because the mere existence of Drizzt was giving lie to Entreri’s entire way of life. How could anyone fight as well as Artemis Entreri without possessing the inner rage that consumed the man?”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“In his mind, Kimmuriel heard Yharaskrik’s unspoken thought, 'He fornicates with dragons!'

“Jarlaxle sees his entire existence as something to be enjoyed and explored,” Kimmuriel said.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“I hesitate to take Azzudonna, this woman I barely know and know not at all as a friend, and you expect me to subject you to the intrusion of the hive mind?” “Why, Kimmuriel, did you just admit that you love me?” Jarlaxle teased, but the psionicist was having none of it.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“I am Oblodran,” he answered. “And we were trained to accept the intrusions of the hive mind as the door to our greatness. Yet these centuries later, the first time my mind was scoured still haunts me. I try to forget about their intrusions, but they are with me often, and usually without warning. A smell, a notion, an action, something I see or hear—anything at all can bring me back to that experience. It tries me and chases me in my nightmares—and again, I submitted to it willingly! For Azzudonna, this act, forced upon her against her will, would utterly break her. Irrecoverably, I am sure.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“As he finished, he cleverly revealed a particular ruby pendant about his neck, one Bruenor knew from long ago, and one Regis had only recently recovered as a gift from Jarlaxle in exchange for some cheating in a gambling game and a wild adventure on the high seas.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“Ye ain’t helpin’, wizard.” “Ain’t tryin’ to, dwarf,” Gromph shot back. “We’ve been at this for hours, and you storm in here as if we’re all to bow down before you. Treat me like a subject, King Bruenor, and you’ll understand the life of a newt.” He pointed his finger upward, indicating the room, reminding of the spell. “And that is no lie.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“Gromph will be angry,” Penelope warned. “Gromph can kiss me hairy bum.” Bruenor shoved through the door, nearly hitting Dab’nay in the face as she was moving to exit the room.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“He bore in, slashing and stabbing, leaping into a circle kick that caught a gnoll in the chest and sent it flying aside. He landed in a low crouch beneath a sweeping short spear, then sprang up behind that cut, scimitar going out wide to stab a gnoll charging in from the side, left palm coming up under the snout of the spear-wielder—and with such force that it lifted the three-hundred-pound gnoll right up and over the barricade.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“Torture her?” Kimmuriel said with a dismissive laugh.

“It can be very effective.”

“Effective at ruining every alliance you’ve forged. You, I say, for I’ll have no part in any such thing.”

“You have changed, my friend.”

“That is my hope. But even if I hadn’t, I don’t think you’ll get much from torture.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“Through decades of experience, Drizzt had come to learn that many living people would remain underestimated and unappreciated for their sacrifices and efforts by critics who yipped like gnolls under a late autumn moon. Until their deaths, of course, at which point, the people of action and consequence would often be lionized and elevated to near-godlike status—something, of course, that those who took up the mantle could never live up to. Until they were dead.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“The Second and Fourth Houses, at least, had come against her, and she didn’t doubt that more had joined as well. In Menzoberranzan, the typical assault meant that none could be left alive as witnesses. It was not forbidden for one house to attack another, as long as they didn’t get caught.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“Dear sister, it is not hard to convince a mortal to believe that which she wants so badly to believe,” Eskavidne explained. “It is not hard to suggest deeper reason for mere coincidence, or to create patterns in events unrelated. These mortals yearn for a deeper truth—a hint of such a thing holds a powerful allure. And they seek an orderly multiverse about them, fanatically seeking patterns when none exist, and praying, ever praying, for a controlling figure to parent them.” “And so now Kyrnill Kenafin knows what she knows, and anyone trying to convince her otherwise will be met with a wall of doubt,” Yiccardaria reasoned. “And anger,” said Eskavidne. “Great anger. Violent anger.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“The blend of these two often-conflicting realities—logical and emotional—goes deeper than the mere perception of the world around us. I have come to believe that it goes a long way toward determining the type of person one might be. I am led inescapably to the belief that the level to which one can empathetically look past the personal to the pains and losses of the wider situation is a measure of one’s heart and goodness.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“am led inescapably to the belief that the level to which one can empathetically look past the personal to the pains and losses of the wider”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“To Lolth’s contempt,” Kimmuriel said breathlessly, coming out behind them. “To the Nine Hells with that ugly spider,” said Gromph from the tunnel.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“Catti-brie held her breath, then burst into tears when her husband appeared, Guenhwyvar by his side. As it always should be.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“Kimmuriel had been desperately worried about subjecting his dearest friend to the intrusions of the mind flayers. Perhaps he should have been more worried about subjecting the illithids to the sensibilities of Jarlaxle.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“But Kimmuriel was not amused. “No, do not minimize the potential trauma of this. We each have thoughts too deep to share. Every one of us. Every living, reasoning being has secrets only unto themselves. Things they think, thoughts that flitter unexpectedly, things that please or arouse or frighten, vicious thoughts that would mark them as horrible and evil if spoken aloud. It is what makes us individuals. What makes you you.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“The inability to recognize the very different perception another might find from what you consider to be a shared event will lead to confusion and often conflict.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“And that which you hear about the world around you also shapes your perception.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“She has no ambition beyond her faith. Such a waste of a life.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“No easy task, that. In many cases, when a person is convinced of a truth, no amount of evidence will be enough to dissuade them, and I have found, to my horror, that the very act of presenting contrary evidence often pushes that person deeper into their beliefs!”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge

“This is the challenge in the coming struggles for the heart and soul of Menzoberranzan, to separate the dupers from the duped, and to convince the duped that the truth is not what they have been taught, and that there is a better way, a gentler way, a more prosperous and moral way.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Glacier's Edge