“Hard lives begat hard laws, not just in the necessities of living, but also in those of believing.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Well, the world presented its challenges, and without challenges life was worthless and pointless and, most crucially, devoid of interest.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The dead were gone through Hood’s Gate. The living were left with the pain of their passage.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Vengeance belonged to the young, after all. The time when emotions burned hottest, when life was sharp enough to cut, fierce enough… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Dying left no details behind, after all. And most certainly, nothing like absolution awaited the fallen. Absolution comes from the living, not… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Everything worth fighting for is gained without fighting. Every struggle is a struggle against doubt. Honour is not a thing to be… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“«Such is the irony of life,» Kruppe proclaimed, raising one pastry-filled hand over his head, «that one learns to distrust the obvious,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Among the Rhivi of North Genabackis, there was a saying. A man who stirs awake the serpent is a man without fear.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Can you live without answers? All of you, ask that of yourself. Can you live without answers? Because if you cannot, then… — 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
“Philosophers and fools might claim that light is without shape, that it finds its existence in painting the shape of other things,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Today’s righteous cause is religion. The gods are paying attention, after all. Wanting you to die in their name. Why? To prove… — 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
“Time was such an element, she now believed. The stretch of existence between events, consisting of countless other events, all strung together… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“If we are to live ... we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name. There is no… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“He lifted up another card and set it down before him. 'Priest of Life, hah, now that's a good one. Game's done.'… — 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… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“He was not too old, and he had a family—people to fight for, to return to, people that mattered in his life.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Through the gamut of life we struggled for control, for a means to fashion the world around us, an eternal, hopeless hunt… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Life is like a clam,” Birds Mottle’s father once told her. “Years filtering shit then some bastard cracks you open and scrapes… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Life's final lesson,the only truthful one buried beneath a layered skein of delusions. Sooner or later,she now understood,we are all naught but… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Life belonged to other people, and his only claim to it was his power to take it from them. Nor would he… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“If I’d known a lecture was coming, I’d have kept my mouth shut.” “Coming to terms with life as an adolescent, are… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Innocence is only a virtue, lass, when it is temporary. You must pass from it to look back and recognize its unsullied… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“If we are to live,’ Rake went on, ‘we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name. There… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, the old scar tissue… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“This one,' said the hooded man, 'resists sorcery, Cotillion. Though his blood is old, I wonder, will all mortals one day be… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“No life’s path is bloodless. Spill that of those blocking your path. Spill your own. Struggle on, wade the growing torrent with… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“[T]he unnamed soldier is a gift. The named soldier--dead, melted wax--demands a response among the living...a response no-one can make. Names are… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Old soldiers cannot fit in a peaceful world,’ Urusander said. ‘They feel like ghosts and they hunger for the zeal of life,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then… — 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
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