“Weston did not know the Malacandrian word for laugh: indeed, it was not a word he understood very well in any language.”

“Home," he said softly. "If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.”

“Drizzt had always suspected it, but now it was confirmed, that "welcome" was his favortie word in the Common Tongue, and a word, he understood with no equivalent in the language of the drow.”

“I made my promises in English and Anton did the same and even if the little priest understood not a word of it, we were given to know it was understood by God and that the union was made for better or worse, no matter what the tongue, for the language of the heart is spoken in all the corners of the earth.”

“Do not carve on stone or wood,He was honest" or "He was good."Write in smoke on a passing breezeSeven words… and the words are these,Telling all that a volume could,He lived, he laughed and… he understood.”

“Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”