• "I like the feeling of magic inside me. And someday fat innkeepers will bow to me." -The Soulforge
• "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. Our lives, 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 us all. It will come 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 understand me, Caramon."
• "Haven't you learned 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 hole!"
• "Farewell, my friends...And a long farewell it will be. Some of us are not destined 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."
• "Home is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plowing along in 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, intentionally, willingly...She will enter the Abyss with me. She will go before me and fight my battles. She will face the dark priests, dark mages, spirits of the dead doomed to wander in that cursed land, plus the unbelieveable torments that my Queen can devise. All these will wound her in body, devour her mind, and shred her soul. Finally, when she can endure no more, she will slump to the ground 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 has 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."
• "Have I murdered another of your pet kender?" -War of the Twins
• "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." -Dragons of Winter Night
• "What magic exists that could be powerful enough to banish the knowledge from my heart that I had once been loved. Not even death can do so much." -Dragons of Summer Flame
• "I will let nothing stop me. Look at Caramon's face, Tanis. He knows! I killed him once. I can do it again." -Dragons of Winter Night
• "Now, finally, I am as I was meant to be but for nature's cruel trick--one whole person." -Dragons of Winter Night
• "Some white paint on my face and hands, a bit of charcoal dust and some of Tika's pistachio nut paste under the eyes, a handful of flash powder, and--behold! The Dead Wizard from the Abyss." -Dragons of Summer Flame
• "Lunitari's idish, shirak, damen du! For god's sake, light, damn you!" -Brothers in Arms
• "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." -The Soulforge
• "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..." -Brothers in Arms
• "The future changes as we stand here, else we are the game pieces of the gods, not their heirs, as we have been promised." -Dragons of Winter Night

"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." -Dragons of Summer flame