“There is no armor made that can withstand the truth. -Karsa Orlong.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Maybe it all needs tearing apart, every one of those lies. And maybe brutality is what’ll make us all equal. Still,” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“When a poet speaks of truth to another poet, what hope has truth?” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“As if the only genuine gestures were the small ones, the ones devoid of an audience. As if true honesty belonged to… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Death and dying makes us into children once again, in truth, one last time, there in our final wailing cries. More than… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Do not flee us. Do not flee this moment, this scene. Do not confuse dislike and abhorrence with angry denial of truths… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Death and dying makes us into children once again, in truth, one last time, there in our final wailing cries. More than… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Death. Now, that was an interesting notion. One that, perhaps, he should have been more familiar with than any other being, but… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Tis the grand stupidity of our kind, dear Cutter, to see all the errors of our ways, yet find in ourselves the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“No matter, they weren’t going anywhere. Never again. Two skeletons buried beneath a dead city. No more fitting a barrow for a warrior of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share
“I was reminded ... the way that wood crumbles into dissolution.’ ‘The release of energy. Perhaps a better way of seeing it.’ ‘Such release… — Steven Erikson Copy Share
“I am here to arrest your manservant. The one named Bugg.’ ‘Oh, now really, his cooking isn’t that bad.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share
The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity. The former… — Steven Erikson Copy Share
“People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in truth had… — Steven Erikson Copy Share
“Envy shrugged. 'Can no value be found in good intentions?' 'What, precisely, are you trying to justify? And to me, or yourself?' She glared,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share
Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round. — Steven Erikson Copy Share
“The existance of many gods conveys true complexity of mortal life. Conversely, the assertion of but one god leads to a denial of complexity,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share
“All right, shadow-priest, you've been spying — on what? What state secrets have you learned watching me groom these horses?' 'Only that they hate… — Steven Erikson Copy Share
“There is nothing wrong with where we are, how we are. You spit on satisfaction, leaving you always unsettled and miserable. I am a… — Steven Erikson Copy Share
It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain. — Steven Erikson Copy Share
“I admit,’ said Spite, ‘to a certain melancholy when visiting vibrant cities, as is this Darujhistan. A long life teaches one just how ephemeral… — Steven Erikson Copy Share
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share
“People who make up their minds about something never listen to advice - especially when it's to the contrary.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share
