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Steven Erikson Quote: “If there was neither a time before nor a time after, then was not the moment of creation eternal and yet for ever instantaneous?”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Every worthwhile plan is diabolical.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Paran could feel nothing but the white fire of vengeance, filling his mind, coruscating through his body.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “An unwillingness. I can carry no one else’s burden – not even for a moment. We are all pulled inside ourselves now, each alone...”
Steven Erikson Quote: “It must be taken as given that a man who happens to be the world’s most powerful, most terrible, most deadly sorceror, must have a woman at his side. But it does not follow, my children, that a woman of similar proportions requires a man at hers.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The door flew open, carrying into the room a gust of steamy air and then Trotts.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The girl stopped to regard him, her small round face slowly coming to mirror Paran’s own frown.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “He strode down the empty street, cleaving the low-lying mists that swirled like incandescent cloaks in the gaslight.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The detonation was deafening, the blast a bruised gout of flame that drove back the airborne sand and the wind carrying it, and flung the attackers and their mounts like a god’s hand, backward onto the road and off the sides.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Who in their dreams is not omnipotent? If in sleep I grow wings and fly high above the land, it does not mean I will awaken cloaked in feathers. We are gods in our dreams. Disaster strikes when we come to believe the same is true in our real lives.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Closing in a noose around her neck, the sound blocked the outside world – its air, its light.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Money is sleight of hand,’ Tehol said, nodding. ‘Unless you’ve got diamonds in your hands. Then it’s not just an idea any more. If you want to know the cheat behind the whole game, it’s right there, lasses. Even when money’s just an idea, it has power. Only it’s not real power. Just the promise of power. But that promise is enough so long as everyone keeps pretending it’s real. Stop pretending and it all falls apart.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “When robbed, the rich cry out for protection and prosecution. When stealing, they expect the judiciary to look the other way.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “If holy words could not offer up an answer to despair, then what good were they? If the truths so revealed did not invite restitution, then their utterance was no more than a curse. And if the restitution is found not in the mortal realm, then we are invited to inaction, and indifference. Will you promise to a soul a reward buried in supposition? Are we to reach throughout our lives but never touch? Are we to dream and to hope, but never know?”
Steven Erikson Quote: “An end to my fear of being alone. An end to a soul’s solitude, when death at last arrives. There is something in that, something in there, that comforts.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “But the value was an illusion. Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the feeling of satiation, even as his spirit starves.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The game the mind must play to unleash destruction. He’d stood amidst the ranks more than once, sensing the soldiers alongside him seeking and finding that place in the mind, cold and silent, the place where husbands, fathers, wives and mothers became killers. And practice made it easier, each time. Until it becomes a place you never leave.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Laughing, he’d flung dense clouds of earth and stone skyward to blind them.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “She saw her breath curl in a white stream, drawn inward to the darkness beyond.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Some roads were easier to leave than others. Many walked to seek the future, but found only the past. Others sought the past, to make it new once more, and discovered that the past was nothing like the one they’d imagined.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The thief dragged his attention from the wooden block. ‘I’m listening.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Oh, Laseen,” she murmured, tears welling in her eyes, “I know why we fear this Jaghut Tyrant. Because he became human, he became like us, he enslaved, he destroyed, and he did it better than we could.” She lowered her head into her hands. “That’s why we fear.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The gentler and kinder the god, the more harsh and cruel its worshippers, for they hold to their conviction with taut certainty, febrile in its extremity, and so cannot abide dissenters. They will kill, they will torture, in that god’s name. And see in themselves no conflict, no matter how bloodstained their hands.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “I have tolerated the deceitful and the malicious for long enough. My sword shall now answer them.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “There are no singular tales. A life in solitude is a life rushing to death. But a blind man will never rush; he but feels his way, as befits an uncertain world.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “It’s just the place we chose. To do what’s right. But then, maybe that alone gives reason to take us down, to destroy us.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The pot-thrower in the hut behind the shop, hands and forearms slick with clay, dreaming, yes, of the years in which a life took shape, when each press of a fingertip sent a deep track across a once smooth surface, changing the future, reshaping the past, and was this not as much chance as design? For all that intent could score a path, that the ripples sent up and down and outward could be surmised by decades of experience, was the outcome ever truly predictable?”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Dour music has its own beauty, for the song of ruin is most fertile.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Do you like shiny things? I do, even though they hurt my eyes. Maybe it’s because they hurt my eyes. What do you think?’ ‘I don’t think much of anything any more, lad.’ ‘I think you do too much.’ ‘Oh, really?’ ‘Father thinks the same. You think about things there’s no point in thinking about. It makes no difference. But I know why you do.’ ‘You do?’ The lad nodded. ‘The same reason I like shiny things.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Was not love its own shock? A match to that of death? Did it not take the eyes first? Such reverberations as to weaken the bravest man or woman – its trembling echoes never left a mortal soul.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “And we’re not talking mild snoring, either. Imagine being chained to the floor of a cave, with the tide crashing in, louder, louder, louder –.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Mammot’s body withered beneath the clambering, frenzied attack. Flesh was ripped away, fires lancing, boring holes through him. He was driven to his knees, a vortex swirling like madness around him.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they see how those others are deceived and made into fools because they chose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Never make a roadblock of yourself on trouble’s road. No, make yourself a bridge instead, with stones slick as grease.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “But even that word, ‘stranger’, arose from a time of kin-hearths and a half-dozen huts marking the very limits of a people, a realm, a temporary nest in the seasonal rounds – when we lived in nature and nature lived in us and no other divide existed beyond what was known and what was unknown.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The panic that had filled him was subsiding, perhaps having burned itself out.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “What holds me to life, if not desire? What vaster power exists? With it, I swear, I feel I can defy the inevitable. Weapon and shield, companion and ally, enough to make the world back away, enough to surmount the highest walls and cross the deepest chasms. Desire, you stand in place of a lover’s arms, and make your embrace such dark comfort. She.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “In natural justice, Arathan, the weak cannot hide, unless we grant them the privilege. And understand, it is ever a privilege, for which the weak should be eternally grateful.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “He’d seen enough of life to know he wouldn’t miss it much. His only regret was the grief his death would level upon those who cared for him. Venes.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “None the less, you have my leave, if only that you might ensure your spies are made aware of precisely when her spies make their report, so that they in turn may report to you and you may then report to me. Although what I am to do with such knowledge will no doubt escape me, given that the event initiating these flurries of reporting is none other than the one occurring right now in this room.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Never bargain with a man who has nothing to lose.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The longer one lives, the less valued is that life. Why is that?”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Pogroms need no reason, sir, none that can weather challenge, in any case. Difference in kind is the first recognition, the only one needed, in fact. Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks – all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are not them.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Every artist was haunted by lies. Every artist fought to find truths. Every artist failed. Some turned back, embracing those comforting lies. Others took their own lives in despair. Still others drank themselves into the barrow, or poisoned everyone who drew near enough to touch, to wound. Some simply gave up, and wasted away in obscurity. A few discovered their own mediocrity, and this was the cruellest discovery of all. None found their way to the truths.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “That’s the thing with Just Wars – they never end and never will because Justice is a weak god with too many names.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Logic is simply the language of convenient rationalization in a pseudo-science-loving civilization.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Bodily functions are a wonderful, indeed sensual, thing. Why, the mere blowing clear of a nose is a potential source of ecstasy, once you grasp its phlegmatic allure.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Shall I loose the fleas on my head to rend your worthless flesh from your jellied bones?”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The notion of freedom could make even peace and order seem oppressive, generate the suspicion of some hidden purpose, some vast deceit, some unspecified crime being perpetrated beyond human ken. That was a generous way of looking at it; the alternative was to acknowledge that humans were intrinsically conflicted, cursed with acquisitive addictions of the spirit.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Lying with lovers also belonged to night, and that made sense, for it was in the midst of true darkness that the first fire of life was born, flickering awake to drive back the unchanging absence of light. To lie with a lover was to celebrate the creation of fire. From this in the flesh to the world beyond.”
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