Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it... still, we have to keep trying and hoping. That's what's important -- the trying and hoping. Maybe that's the most important of all.
-Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman DragonLance Chronicles
Vol. 1
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, our loss greater.
-Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman DragonLance
Dragons of Winter Night
It is easy to have hope in the spring, warrior, when
the weather is warm and the vallenwoods are green. It is easy to have hope in
the summer, when the vallenwoods glitter with gold. It is easy to have hope in
the fall when the vallenwoods are as red as living blood. But in the winter,
when the air is sharp and bitter and the skies are gray, does the vallenwood
die, warrior?
-Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman DragonLance
Time of the Twins
History is like a great river. It begins with small, clear streams, single voices, rushing quickly past their banks until they join their waters with other streams, growing larger and larger as they mingle again and again, until the small voices of a thousand tiny streams have been collected into the roaring song of a great river. The great river in turn flows into the deep and endless sea. History is like that sea. And though it might be simplest to study the great oceans and rivers -- the waters and mighty events of ages gone by -- sometimes the past is best understood by listening to the music of a few of those tiny brooks instead, the stories of the single lives that, one by one and drop by drop, made the world what it was.
-Mark Anthony & Ellen Porath DragonLance The Meetings Sextet
Vol. 1
Always before, you could explain
The turning darkness of the earth,
And how the dark embraced the rain
And gave the ferns and flowers birth
Already I forget these things,
And how a vein of gold survives
The mining of a thousand springs,
The seasons of a thousand lives.
Now winter is my memory,
Now autumn, now the summer, light--
So every spring from now will be
Another season into night.
-Michael Williams Mourning Song
DragonLance Meetings Sextet Vol. 4
Be prudent, we are strangers in a very strange country. Let's listen twice before we answer once.
-Paul B. Thompson & Tonya R. Carter
DragonLance Preludes II Vol. 1
Don't change color to match the walls. Look like you belong and the walls will change color to match you.
-Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman DragonLance Legends
Vol. 1
As I stand in darkness, I feel the warmth of the light upon my skin and I know my face is turned toward the sun. I can look in to the sun, for my eyes are forever shrouded by darkness. But if you
who can see look too long in the sun, you will lose your sight, just as those who live too long in the darkness will gradually lose
theirs."
-Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman DragonLance Test of the Twins
Foreboding? Premonition? I do not believe in such things, for they imply a higher power, an immortal hand and mind meddling in the affairs of men.
-Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman
Fire Sea
It is death that gives life its meaning. Death, the great equalizer. Man, woman, peasant, king, rich, poor: all of us
fellow travelers to our journey's end. Life is sacred, precious, a thing to value, to cherish, not to be taken lightly or wantonly.
- Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman Fire Sea