Steven Erikson

“We served the one who served us.’ He”

— Steven Erikson

“Tradition was the last bastion of fools.”

— Steven Erikson

“I shall call him Tufty.”

— Steven Erikson

“Death? Since when is death failure?”

— Steven Erikson

The heart of wisdom is tolerance.

— Steven Erikson

The art of illusion is grace itself.

— Steven Erikson

“Love is a dog rolling on a dead fish.”

— Steven Erikson

“Something’s nibbling my spleen!”

— Steven Erikson

“Courting is the art of growing like mould on the one you want.”

— Steven Erikson

“To draw a weapon is to announce an end to uncertainty.”

— Steven Erikson

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

— Steven Erikson

“The curse of climbing is discovering how great the distance yet to climb.”

— Steven Erikson

“Don't worry. I am like most people. I can keep my eyes and still see nothing.”

— Steven Erikson

“What is given away for free comes back wounded.”

— Steven Erikson

“The easiest thing to break is a man’s heart,”

— Steven Erikson

“We are not born innocent, simply unmeasured.”

— Steven Erikson

“People who make up their minds about something never listen to advice - especially when it's to the contrary.”

— Steven Erikson

“That’s a succinct summary of humankind, I’d say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the…

— Steven Erikson

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a…

— Steven Erikson

“Look!” piped Korbal Broach. Bauchelain paused. “I see.” Tucking the mangled head under an arm, Korbal Broach walked to the steps, and…

— Steven Erikson

“Stone, sea, forest, city—and every creature that ever lived—all share the same struggle. Being resists unbeing. Order wars against the chaos of…

— Steven Erikson

“We are not all. We are defined within a greater definition, and this greater definition eludes comprehension, because we are lacking. Incapable.…

— Steven Erikson

“How much could be stripped from a people before they began stripping away themselves? The steep slope of dissolution began with a…

— Steven Erikson

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in…

— Steven Erikson

“It wasn't too much, to take a frail figure into one's arms for those last moments of life. Better than a cot,…

— Steven Erikson

So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropping whelps,…

— Steven Erikson

“My arms wrapped about little Jala, little sister, hot with fever but the fire grew too hot, and so, in my arms,…

— Steven Erikson

“Quiet! My wife!' 'Is she sleeping?' 'Sleeping? She never sleeps! No, you fool, she hunts !' 'Hunts? What does she hunt?' 'Not…

— Steven Erikson

“We are all pushed into a world of madness, yet it must now fall to each of us to pull back from…

— Steven Erikson

“Kallor shrugged. '[...] I have walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand…

— Steven Erikson

“Most bravery, dear little one,’ he said as he pulled the dog from the water and rested it across the back of…

— Steven Erikson

Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing…

— Steven Erikson

“If you never knew the worlds in my mind your sense of loss would be small pity and we’ll forget this on…

— Steven Erikson

Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered.…

— Steven Erikson

“To jest prawdziwa tajemnica cywilizacji. Choć zawsze wykorzystywał ją w swym interesie, nadal nie zbliżył się do jej zrozumienia. Gotowość inteligentnych (powiedzmy,…

— Steven Erikson

“He swam at my feet, Powerful arms in broad strokes Sweeping the sand. So I asked this man, What seas do you…

— Steven Erikson

“I was reminded ... the way that wood crumbles into dissolution.’ ‘The release of energy. Perhaps a better way of seeing it.’…

— Steven Erikson

“Hellian leaned against a tree. 'Seems t'me, Cap'in, we got two things we can do and only two. We can retreat back…

— Steven Erikson

“Baruk looked up, then twisted in his chair to regard his guest, who was busy preening herself on his map-table. ‘Crone, the…

— Steven Erikson

“The miracle of hindsight is how it transforms great military geniuses of the past into incompetent idiots, and incompetent idiots of the…

— Steven Erikson