“Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.”

“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.”

“Finally the vampire released him with another groan, sitting back on his haunches. "Your blood is steeped in power." Running his tongue over a fang, he said, "Among other things. I believe I might be high. But I like 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.”

“That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”

“..he wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.”