“There is nothing wrong with where we are, how we are. You spit on satisfaction, leaving you always unsettled and miserable. I… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Kallor shrugged. '[...] I have walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Many children, early on, acquire a love of places they have never been. Often, such wonder is summarily crushed on the crawl… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The body directly before him, however, was that of a child. The blue of the eyes was now covered in a milky… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of… — 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
“Dear Mother Dark, do you look down upon me, now? Do you see me, your child? Do you smile, to see me… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“He drew a ragged breath. 'You ...' Felisin waited, hoping the life would flee this husk, flee it now, before— 'You ...… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine. [...] To drive children into labour is to… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The Azath will not be touched, for it is new, a child. Her eyes, soft brown, slowly regarded those of her companions.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“He had seen often enough the wilful truncation people undertook upon leaving childhood (and the wonder of its endless possibilities), as if… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all… — 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
“One day, I will be a child again. Carved toys will caper and dance from my mind, out across rock I will… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“If not for a dumb beast's incomprehension at its own destruction beneath the loving hands of two heartbroken children.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“It is not enough to wish for a better world for the children. It is not enough to shield them with ease… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Awful things, children. Needy, self-centered tyrants, the boys all teeth and firsts, the girls all claws and spit. Gathering into sniveling packs… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“I am here to arrest your manservant. The one named Bugg.’ ‘Oh, now really, his cooking isn’t that bad.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round. — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Why do I hate spiders? Gods, who doesn't? What a stupid question.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain. — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
