"It is not for them that you make this sacrifice, the voice repeated. It is because you cannot bear defeat! Nothing has ever defeated you, not even death itself..." -Fistandantilus, Dragons of Autumn Twilight

"I'll be back in two shakes of a lamb's tail. But why two shakes? Why not three? And do lambs even have tails? I don't see how--" -Tasslehoff Burrfoot, The Soulforge

"I will let nothing stop me. Look at Caramon's face, Tanis. He knows! I killed him once. I can do it again." -Raistlin Majere, Dragons of Winter Night

"You will be beset with failure, but enver give up hope. If that happens, you will know defeat." -Valthonis, Dragons of a Vanished Moon

"If I have done nothing else of value in this life, I have loved and been loved. And that is all that truely matters." -Palin Majere, Dragons of a Vanished Moon

"Come along, Solostaran, I'll help. We old men have to stick together. Too bad you're such a damn fool." -Fizban the Fabulous, Dragons of Winter Night

"Don't stop for anything. If you're attacked, don't stop to fight, keep running. Your job is to get the females to a place of safety." -Kang, Draconian Measures

"Caught it myself! With my spoon of rabbit grabbing!" -Ralph Tanglemop, The Dawning of a New Age

"And I tell you, one more of your furry-elephant, teleporting-ring, plants-live-off-air stories and I'll twist that hoopak around your neck!" -Flint Fireforge, Dragons of Spring Dawning

"I say, are you sure you saw this Fizban? Isn't he dead? Then he shouldn't be wandering around, scaring people! I'll have to talk with him. Hey, you!" -Fizban the Fabulous, Dragons of Winter Night

"Now, finally, I am as I was meant to be but for nature's cruel trick--one whole person." -Raistlin Majere, Dragons of Winter Night

"You're my twin. Telling you is like telling myself." -Caramon Majere, The Soulforge

Raistlin Majere:
"So Dark. Endless darkness, eternal. It was not the absence of light that was so frightening as the absence of thought, of knowledge, of comprehension. Ourl ives, the lives of the living will go on. The sun shines, the moons rise, we will laugh and talk, and he will know nothing, feel nothing. Nothing. So final. It will come to use all. It will come to me."
"I like the feeling of magic inside me. And someday fat innkeepers will bow to me."
"There is a difference between wisdom and intelligence, my brother. A person may have one without the other."
"Death is life's one great certainty."
"All my life, I was my own person. The choices I made, I made of my own free will. I was never held in thrall by anyone or anything; not even the Queen of Darkness herself! Bow to others in reverence and respect, but never in slavery!"
"You never did understand me, Caramon."
"Haven't you learend yet? I know! Put it at that. I paid for my knowledge in the Tower of High Sorcery. I paid for it with my body and very nearly my reason..."
"...I break the silence now because I want the facts known. If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged by the truth."
"Without the magic, there could be no future."
"I will be an accommodating guest, I assure you! I will not set the bed linens on fire, nor will I poison the well."
"Nothing is the matter, my brother! Nothing in the world is the matter! For once, everything is right."
"If you even so much as look at my spellbooks sideways, I will turn you into a cricket and swallow you whole!"
"Farewell, my friends...And a long farewell it will be. Some of us are not destines to meet again in this world!"
"Someday you--with all your strength and charm and good looks--you--all of you, will call me master!"
"No one hears you...crying in the night, alone..."
"Would you? Would you go with me into darkness? ...I truly believe you would."
"I see my appearance startles you."
"I used her. What of the way she used me? We were two of a kind, just clad in different color clothes."
"I wanted to tell her that sometimes, in my long sleep, I dreamt of her."
"No, my brother, where I go, you cannot follow. Strong as you are, it would lead you to your death. We are finally as the gods meant us to be, Caramon--two whole people, and here our paths separate. You must learn to walk yours alone--or with those who might choose to walk it with you. Farewell, my brother."
"Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plowing along in a vain attempt to reach it."
"Bow only in reverence, never in subservience."
"The dark crimes which stain my soul, brother, you cannot begin to imagine. If you knew, you would turn from me in horror and loathing. And, you are right. Sometimes in the night, even I turn from myself. But know this, I committed those crimes intentionally, willingly. Know this too--there are darker crimes before me, and I will commit them, intentinally, willingly...She will enter the Abyss with me. She will go before me and fight my battles. She will face dark priests, dark mages, spirits of the dead doomed to wander in that curst land, plus the unbelievable torments that my Queen can devise. All tehse will wound her in body, devour her mind, and shred her soul. Finally, when she can endure no more, she will slump to the groudn to lie at my feet...bleeding, wretched, dying. She will, with her last strength, hold out her hand to me for comfort. She will not ask me to save her. She is too strong for that. She will give her life for me willingly, gladly. All she will ask is that I stay with her as she dies. But I will walk past her. I will walk past her without a look, without a word. Why? Because I will no longer need her. I will continue to walk forward to my goal, and my strength will grow even as blood flows from her pierced heart."
"I have sinned enough against this world...Teaching magic to a kender would ensure my damnation."
"In his heart Sturm was a knight. He had better claim to that false title than many who held it for truth. Sturm Brightblade obeyed laws that no one enforced. He lived by a noble code in which no one else believed. he swore an oath that no one heard. Only himself...and his god. No one would have held him to that oath, to the measure. He did that himself. He knew himself."

Tasslehoff Burrfoot:
"Still, we have to keep trying and hoping. That's what's important--the trying and the hoping. Maybe that's most important of all."
"We are the spirits of the poor souls Flint Fireforge left ont he barrom floor. Did we die in combat? No! We died of shame, cursed by the ghost of the grape for not being able to out-drink a hill dwarf."
"Out of my way, you soul-sucking scum! Leave now, lest I unleash the lethal power of my ancestor's tableware! Leave now, lest I use this spoon to scoop out your shadowly innards!"

Caramon Majere:
"I don't understand, Raist."
"I don't want to fight evil. I just want to go home. Is that too much to ask?"

Fizban the Fabulous (Paladine):
"Arrest the tree! Obstructing sunlight! That's the charge!"

"No human in full possession of his sanity, who wanted to keep a firm hold on such sanity, would ever willingly associate with a kender." -Margaret Weis (co-author of Dragonlance)

"The blade must pass through the fire, else it will break." -Par-Salian

"The magic is in the blood, it flows from the heart. Every time you use it, part of yourself goes with it. Only when you are prepared to give all of yourself and receive nothing back will the magic work for you." -Master Theobald

The exchange between Raistlin and Takhiss when seh first promises him eternal torture...:
"My Queen..." (Raistlin)
"What, not yet on your knees?" (Takhisis, Queen of Darkness)
"My Queen...it is your move." (Raistlin)

"The cruelest torture one can inflict on a kender is to lock him up. Of course, it is also widely believed that the cruelest form of troture one can inflict on any other species is to lockt hem up with a kender." -Narrator

"Uh, Fizban...your hat's on fire." -Tasslehoff Burrfoot

"If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, greater." -Tanis

"Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam's dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!" -Abigail Williams, The Crucible

"No mortal mind can encompass the smallness that holds the vastness. / No mortal can see that blinding light for the illuminating darkness. / Mortal flesh withers in the cooling fire of the burning ice. / Mortal ears cannot bear to hear the roaring silence of the thundering quiet. / Mortal spirits cannot comprehend the life that begins in death and the death that lives in life." -Narrator, Dragons of a Lost Star

"From darkness to darkness, my voice echoes in the emptiness. / From this world to the next, my voice cries with life. / From darkness to darkness, I shout. Beneath my feet, all is made firm. / Time that flows, hold your course. / Because by fate even the gods are cast down, weep ye all with me." -Raistlin, Dragons of Summer Flame

"Souls rise like smoke to heaven." -Sturm Brightblade, Darkness and Light

"Old? Me! I don't feel old, inside, I mean. If it wasn't for the occasional annoying pain in my back and my hands and the strong urge to take naps by the fire instead of shouting taunts at minotaur--they get really angry, did you know that? Especially when you go 'mooo' at them. It's amazing how fast an angry minotaur can run when he's chasing you." -Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Dragons of Summer Flame

"Goodbye, Tas. May the minotaur never catch you." -Tanis Half-Elven, Dragons of Summer Flame

"Some white pain on my face and hands, a bit of charcoal dust and some of Tika's pistachio nut paste under th eyes, a handful of flash powder, and--behold! The Dead Wizard from the Abyss." -Raistlin Majere, Dragons of Summer Flame

"Where would you be now, Raistlin Majere, if you had counted love a strength, not a weakness?" "Probably sitting in my brother's kitchen, making gold coins come out my nose for the ejoyment of little children." -Raistlin Majere & Dougan Redhammer (Reorx), Dragons of Summer Flame

 "I'm not afraid of you! I'm awfully glad I got to see something as big and as ugly as you, but now that I've seen you, I really do think it would be best if you went away." -Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Dragons of Summer Flame

"A thing! I'm not a thing! I'm a kender! And as for being undersized, I'd rather be short than look like something that got belched out of Mount Doom." -Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Dragons of Summer Flame

"I'll pack my tears away for today. The gods know that they'll still be here tomorrow. As for the aching in my heart...it will be here always." -Tika Majere, Dragons of Summer Flame

"A trap is only a trap if you step in it before you see it." -Flint Fireforge, Dragons of Summer Flame

"We'll go out through the kitchen." -Tanis Half-Elven, Dragons of Autumn Twilight

"Sometimes winning turns out to be losing, and victory is best achieved in defeat." -Sturm Brightblade, Dragons of Summer Flame

"I think it likes me. Perhaps I could make it light up--just once. What's the word you say to make the light go on? Shelac? Shirley? Shirleylac?" -Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Dragons of Summer Flame

"I made love to a beautiful woman and I didn't know it. Just my luck." -Raistlin Majere, Dragons of Summer Flame

"Leave now, lest I unleash the lethal power of my ancestor's tableware." -Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Dragons of Summer Flame

"Alone together. Medan pondered that phrase. It was all two people could ever be to each other, he supposed. Alone. Together. For the dreams and secrets of our heart may be spoken, but words are poor handmaidens. Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak." -Narrator, Dragons of a Lost Star

"Nay, thee doesn't need to squeeze me in two! It be my job to see thee stays on. Relax. Put thy hands on me rump to balance thyself. There, now. Grip with thy legs." -Centaur, Dragons of Autumn Twilight

"I think I will have the commander to dinner tonight after all. Send for him." Soth bowed his acquiescence, the orange eyes flaming with amusement. "We have many military matters to discuss." Kitiara laughed again, starting to unbuckle the straps of her armor. "Matters of unguarded flanks, breaching walls, thrust, and penetration..." -Kitiara Uth Matar, Test of the Twins

The kender sat quiet and sudued, so unhappy that he actually returned Strum's money pouch. He returned it to Caramon, but the thought was there. -Narrator, The Soulforge

"Lunitari's idish, shirak, damen du! For god's sake, light, damn you!" -Raistlin Majere, Brothers in Arms

"I know. Besides, there is awlays the great worm, Catyrpelius, to protect it, isn't there, mage?" -Sturm Brightblade, Dragons of Winter Night

"How should I know? Do I look like a god?" -Fizban, Dragons of Spring Dawning (Fizban is actually a sort of disguise for the god of light, Paladine.)

"I go where I choose in this world, and I choose to go with you, Tanis Half-Elven." -Fizban, Dragons of Autumn Twilight

"I am a Knight of Solamnia. I am the hand of Paladine, of Kiri-Jolith, and of Habbakuk on this world. You are on Krynn. You are mine, Queen of Darkness." -Huma, The Legend of Huma

"I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment in my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment." -Raistlin, The Soulforge

"I'm not a thief! You know me better than that, Theros. That purse was planted on me--" -Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Dragons of Winter Night

"Understood her? Admired her! Like I myself, she was meant to rule, destined to conquer! But she was stronger than I was. She couild throw aside love that threatened to chain her down. But for a twist of fate, she would have ruled all of Ansalon!" -Lord Soth, Test of the Twins

"A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of magic." -Antimodes of the White Robes, The Soulforge

"He was a Knight, a Solamnic. They're usually so bound up in honor that it's hard for them to take a crap. I don't suppose death would change that." -Kitiara, Brothers in Arms

"Goatweed Tangleknot," the kender said, by way of introduction. "My goodness, but you're ugly," the kender added cheerfully. "You're probably one of the ugliest humans I've ever seen." -Goatweed Tangleknot, Dragons of a Vanished Moon

"I don't know you," said Tasslehoff loudly and gave another conspiratorial wink that was guaranteed to get them both hung. "What's your name?" "Shut up," Gerard shot out of the corner of his mouth. "I had a cousin by that name," observed Tas reflectively. -Tasslehoff Burrfoot and Gerard, Dragons of a Vanished Moon

"Goodbye. May your pouches never be empty." -Tasslehoff, Dragons of a Vanished Moon

"Nothing ever happens by chance. Everything happens for a reason. Your brain may not know the reason. Your brain my never figure it out. But your heart knows. Your heart always knows." -Horkin, Master-at-Wizardry, Brothers In Arms

"I don't care about your name, Red. I don't want to know your name. If you survive your first three or so battles, then maybe I'll learn your name. Not before. I used to learn the names, but it was a goddamned waste of time. Soon as I'd get to know a puke, he'd up and die on me. These days I don't bother." -Horkin, Master-at-Wizardry, Brothers In Arms

"His soul is not his own, and who knows when the buyer will come to claim his property." -Ladonna of the Black Robes, Brothers In Arms

"How my life has changed in only a few short days! I entered this place strong and confident. I leave it weak and shattered, my vision cursed, my body frail. Yet, I leave this place triumphant. I leave with the magic. To gain that, I would have traded away my very soul." -Raistlin, Brothers In Arms

"So much for all my hopes, all my ambitions. This is where it will end. On the side of a mountain, my bones fused to the rock. But who would have guessed Ariakas was telling the truth? A dragon. And I'm to be its goddamn messenger!" -Kitiara, Brothers In Arms

"Lord of Palanthas, my ass! You, wizard, go into the kitchen and add your magic spice." -a barmaid, Brothers In Arms

"Yeah, yeah, I'm comin'! Keep your pants on!" -a barmaid "For the time being." -Caramon, Brothers In Arms

"Never give infromation to your enemy for free. Make him pay for it." -Mad Baron, Brothers In Arms

Kholos, seeing that the baron had nothing to say, forked another chicken. The baron managed to throttle his desire to fork Kholos and said... -Narrator, Brothers In Arms

"And how did I get that experience, my lord, if it wasn't for the experience?" -Horkin, Master-at-Wizardry, Brothers In Arms

"Whew! That was close. I can't believe he got down off the wall that fast! He moves pretty quick for a fat man, I'll say that for him." -Scrounger, Brothers In Arms

"It is better to go looking for the dragon than have the dragon go looking for you." -Old Dwarven Saying, Dragons of Summer Flame

He moved to waist height, which most likely indicated women. This the brute confirmed by cupping two hands over his breast and wiggling his hips. Dragons of a Summer Flame

"What a pitiable lot! I can't see how they could be much danger, unless it's from filth. By the smell, they haven't bathed since the Age of Twilight either." -Scouting knight, Dragons of Summer Flame

"Chains. They bind us, wheather we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away." -Thomas the Tinker, Into the Land of the Unicorns

"The half-elf comes to me for advice, not because I can see the future. I can't. I am no seer. He comes because I am able to think, which is something most of these other fools seem incapable of doing." -Raistlin, Dragons of Winter Night

"What magic exists that could be powerful enough to banish the knowledge fro my heart that I had once been loved. Not even death can do so much." -Raistlin, Dragons of Summer Flame

"Is this something you two do regularly? I've heard married couples do some strange things but this seems kind of weird--" -Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Time of the Twins

"I have Magnesia. I don't know how you get it, but I think it has something to do with milk." -Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Dragons of a Fallen Sun

"Anger is energy spent foolishly." -Kadagan, The Black Wing

"Have I murdered another of your pet kender?" -Raistlin, War of the Twins

"My people were hunting by night while yours were still trying to invent socks." -Fewmaster Toede, Lord Toede

"If I'm going to see the end of the world, I should see it with a positive attitude." -Graym, The Cataclysm, "No Gods, No Heroes"

"He's looking at me like he's going to turn me inside out!" the gnome muttered nervously." That's how he looks at everyone," Tas whispered back. "You'll get used to it." -Gnimsh to Tasslehoff, War of the Twins

"Just so long as he walks with me and doesn't try any fireball spells." -Tasslehoff Burrfoot, Dragons of Summer Flame

"And you'll fail. Is that what you want? Are you going off just to find a way to die that will end your guilt? If so, I can offer you my sword right now. But if you truly want to free Laurana then you're going to need help." -Caramon Majere, Dragons of Spring Dawning

"To Theros of the Silver Arm, I give the power to forge the dragonlance." -Silvara, Dragons of Winter Night

"What sort of life can there be for one who is half of two things and all of nothing?" -Solostaran, Speaker of the Suns, Kindred Spirits