Quotes from Margaret Weis

He writhed at the thought and vowed by the gods of magic, by all three gods of magic, that he would never return to Solace until he could do so with pride in himself and with power in his hand.

People refuse to take responsibility for their own lives. They want someone to tell them what to do, and they want someone to blame when it all goes wrong.

If only I could talk Ã¢â'¬Â¦ —Doctor Ellington, the cat

There comes a time, Laurana, when you've got to risk your life for something you believe in -- something that means more than life itself.

For the love of all that is holy, just give me a straight-up, stand-up sword fight! I hate court intrigue and all the closet-hiding, eavesdropping, secret-liaisoning, lying, and manipulating, who's-watching-who-watching-who bastards that bow and scrape and simper as they slip arsenic into your claret. You can't tell your friends from your enemies from one day to the next. —Stephano De Guichen

It is written in the Disks of Mishakal that evil, by its very nature, will always turn in upon itself. Thus it becomes self-defeating.

Raistlin made a mistake, a terrible, tragic mistake. And he did what few of us can do—he had courage enough to admit it and try to do what he could to rectify it, even though it meant sacrificing himself.

You will come to learn, as we have in our long lives, that what is given freely is often despised. It is only when we pay for something that we treasure it.

have sinned enough against the world," Raistlin said dryly. "Teaching magic to

Well, I guess we're off, like a herd of mad turtles as my dad used to say.

A chicken with its neck wrung is different from a chicken with its head cut off, but does it matter to the chicken?

He was acting typically human, the half-elf thought. Refusing that which was in easy reach, only to cry for it when it was gone.

Trouble borrowed will be paid back with interest compounded on sorrow.' Don't worry. We're with you.

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.

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!

A 'why' is a dangerous thing," said Haplo. "It challenges old, comfortable ways; forces people to think about what they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. No wonder your people are afraid of it." "I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer," said Alfred, seeming almost to be talking to himself.

Be the hero of your own life. Don't let someone else play that role." "Be the hero of my own life," Alfred repeated softly.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. —Henry Van Dyke

Out in space, the pulsar flashed, once every two seconds; reminded Dixter of the knowing wink of some gigantic eye. The

Being around humans over a long period of time taught me to understand that their impatience and ambition and their constant need for hurry, hurry, hurry is just their way of attempting to outrace their own mortality.

Haplo: 'single, alone.' That is your name and your destiny," said his father, his finger rough and hard on Haplo's chest. "Your mother and I have defeated the odds thrown for us already. Every Gate we pass from now on is a wink at fate. But the time will come when the Labyrinth will claim us, as it claims all except the lucky and the strong. And the lucky and the strong are generally the lonely. Repeat your name.

Gerard had built a most excellent fortress around himself, a fortress bristling with sharp barbs, its walls stocked with buckets of acidic comments, its high towers hidden in a cloud of dark humors, the entire fortress surrounded by a moat of sullen resentment.

Est Sularus oth Mithas"—"My honor is life." The code defined honor and was more

two!" The centaur glanced back, his eyes glittering in the moonlight. "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.