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Steven Erikson Quote: “It is a fool’s curse, to measure oneself in endless dissatisfaction.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Kill, thought Ditch, nodding, kill, yes, I understand. I do. Kill, for her. Kill. And he found that the word itself, yes, the word itself, knew how to smile.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Some things went beyond a single man’s life, and maybe justice existed outside the minds of humanity, beyond even the hungry eyes of gods and goddesses, a thing shining and pure and final.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Names are not for the asking, mortal. Names are earned.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “A civilization was the means by which too many people could live together despite their mutual hatred.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Crowd control.’ ‘Excuse me?’ ‘That’s all civilization is, T’riss. A means by which we manage the proliferation of our kind. It increases in complexity the more of us there are. Laws keep us muzzled and punishment delivers the necessary message when those laws are broken. Civilizations in decline are notable when certain of their members escape justice, and do so with impunity.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “When next you see Anomander, tell him this from me: he chose wisely. Each time, he chose wisely. Tell him, then, that of all whom I ever met, there is but one who has earned my respect, and he is that one.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Why can’t I have normal friends?’ Stonny demanded. ‘Ones without tiger stripes and cat eyes? Ones without a hundred thousand souls riding their backs? Here comes a rider from that other lagging company – maybe he’s normal! Hood knows, he’s dressed like a farmer and looks inbred enough to manage only simple sentences. A perfect man! Hey! You! No, what are you hesitating for? Come to us, then! Please!”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Every body that darted within his reach he grasped, twisted, bent and broke.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Somewhere above this foul temple, crows danced with sparks above the mouth of a chimney, virtually unseen in the darkness. Each one carried a word, but the sparks were deaf. Too busy with the ecstasy of their own bright, blinding fire. At least, until they went out.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The Claw smiled. “You have begun to learn, Paran. Never be too easy with the knowledge you possess. Words are like coin – it pays to hoard.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “He is strong enough to stand exposed, revealing all that is vulnerable within him. He is brave enough to invite you ever closer. If you hurt him, he will withdraw, as he must, and that path to him will be thereafter for ever sealed. But he begins with the gift of himself. What the other does with it defines the future of that particular relationship.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The son, after all, is but an extension of the mother – at least so the mother believed, there in some inarticulate part of her soul, unseen yet solid as an iron chain. Assail the child and so too the mother is assailed, for what is challenged is her life as a mother, the lessons she taught or didn’t teach, the things she chose not to see, to explain away, to pretend were otherwise than what they were.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “We faced a choice then,’ Haut went on. ‘To resume our onward journey, or to turn round, to discover the blessing that is walking back the way we came. In our standing in one place, we argued for centuries, until finally, in our mutual and well-deserved disgust, we each chose our own paths.’ ‘And so ended your civilization.’ ‘It was never much of one to begin with. But then, few are.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Whatever evil you let ride becomes commonplace, eventually. Problem is, it’s easier to get used to it than carve it out.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The tunnels shrieked with the wind, each one with its own febrile pitch, creating a fierce chorus.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “A man possessing power must act decisively, Ganoes Paran, else it would trickle away through his fingers.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Why do the survivors remain anonymous – as if cursed – while the dead are revered? Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold?”
Steven Erikson Quote: “What must be understood is this: attackers attack as a form of defence. It is their instinctive response to threat, real or perceived. It may be desperate or it may be habit, or both, when desperation becomes a way of life. Behind the assault hides a fragile person.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Those whom the gods choose, ’tis said, they first separate from other mortals – by treachery, by stripping from you your spirit’s lifeblood. The gods will take all your loved ones, one by one, to their death. And, as you harden, as you become what they seek, the gods smile and nod. Each company you shun brings you closer to them. ‘Tis the shaping of a tool, son, the prod and pull, and the final succour they offer you is to end your loneliness – the very isolation they helped you create.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Never be too easy with the knowledge you possess. Words are like coin – it pays to hoard.” “Until you die on a bed of gold,” Paran said.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Whiskeyjack’s eyes widened as a crowd of excited guests poured out from the main chamber and gathered on the terrace.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “No one could claim that Preda Norlo Trumb was the most perceptive of individuals, and the half-dozen Letherii guards under his command, who stood in a twitching clump behind the Preda, were now faced with the very real possibility that Trumb’s stupidity was going to cost them their lives.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Peace did not serve order; order served peace, and when order became godlike, sacrosanct and inviolate, then the peace thus won became a prison, and those who sought their freedom became enemies to order, and in the elimination of such enemies, peace was lost.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “What frightened Paran most, these days, was that he had grown used to being used. He’d been someone else so many times that he saw a thousand faces, heard a thousand voices, all at war with his own.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “We have witnessed life’s myriad struggles. From the lone creature suffering its last moments to thousands dying in a bleak season. And what have we learned? Only that life is its own purpose. And that, where there is life, there shall be suffering. Has it any meaning? Is existence reason enough?”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Trull Sengar kills, and kills, and then, when it is done and he kneels in the blood of the kin he has slain, he weeps.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “A man pushed from behind by many hands will go in but one direction, no matter what he wills.”
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 wich the weak should be eternally grateful. At any given moment, should the strong will it, they can swing a sword and end the life of the weak. And that will be today’s lesson. Forbearance.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Gifts are rarely appreciated,′ Arathan said, and in his mind he was remembering his first night with Feren. ‘And the one who receives knows only confusion. At first. And then hunger... for more. And in that hunger, there is expectation, and so the gift ceases being a gift, and becomes payment, and to give itself becomes a privilege and to receive it a right. By this all sentiment sours.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Odd, isn’t it, how we now deliver upon another nation what we would not have done to ourselves.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Bah! You’re not worth the effort anyway!’ And all at once she collapsed into a heap of spiders that scurried in all directions.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The world is inherited by the obnoxious, not the righteous.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “At some point, no matter how repressive the regime, the citizenry will come to comprehend the vast power in their hands. The destitute, the Indebted, the beleaguered middle classes; in short, the myriad victims. Control was sleight of hand trickery, and against a hundred thousand defiant citizens, it stood no real chance.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The dull, hazy light played along the polished blade like water.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Power may have ten thousand faces, but the look in the eyes of every one of them is the same.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Tool interrupted, ’do you mock me, or your own ignorance? Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Fighting is for people who fail at everything else.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The sky cares nothing for you, dear one. The stars don’t even see you.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “He was asked, then, who was this Winged Grief? And Gallan said, ‘There is but one left who would dare command me. One who would not weep and yet had taken into his soul a people’s sorrow, a realm’s sorrow. His name was Silchas Ruin.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “The curse of the witless is to beat one’s head against the obstinate wall of how things really are, rather than what they insist upon their being.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “When wealth ascends to a point where the majority of the poor finally comprehend that it is, for each of them, unattainable, then all civility collapses, and anarchy prevails.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Duty and courage had been made animate, and this was all the T’lan Imass were, and had been for hundreds of thousands of years. Yet, without choice, such virtues as duty and courage were transformed into empty, worthless words. Without mortality, hovering like an unseen sword overhead, meaning was without relevance, no matter the nature – or even the motivation behind – an act. Any act.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Then darkness swept in around him and he knew no more.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “A true believer, indeed, need never draw a weapon, need never rise in argument, or howl in fury, or make fists, or roll in a mob to crush some helpless, innocent enemy. A true believer needs none of those things. How much of the world insists on living this lie?”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Kadaspala worshipped colour. It was the gift of light; and in its tones, heavy and light, faint and rich, was painted all of life.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “She’d forgotten what love could do, as it threaded its roots through her entire soul, as it tugged and pulled at her thoughts, obsession ripening like seductive fruit. She felt only its life, thickening within her, claiming all she was.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Precipitous creature,′ Kruppe muttered, reaching for the mug of wine the man had left behind. ‘Ah, look at this,’ he said, frowning up at Crokus, ‘nigh two-thirds full. A potential waste!’ Kruppe drank it down in one swift gulp, then sighed. ‘Said potential averted, Dessembrae be praised.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “For one who is poison, there is great pleasure in anguish. In wild longing. In the meaningless explorations of delighted surrender, subjugation – well, subjugation that was in truth domination – no point in being coy here. I surrender in order to demand. Relinquish in order to rule.”
Steven Erikson Quote: “Laws are broken. Existence holds to no laws. Existence is what persists, and to persist is to struggle. In the end, the struggle fails.”
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