The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises. — 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
Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“When we speak of ancient times, Rud Elalle, we find in our words things far nearer to hand, and all those emotions… — 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
“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
“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
“All right, shadow-priest, you've been spying — on what? What state secrets have you learned watching me groom these horses?' 'Only that… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“He waited a moment, as they walked side by side through the camp, and then asked, 'Sir, if there's something we can't… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“And now the page before us blurs. An age is done. The book must close. We are abandoned to history. Raise high… — 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
“There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“But those days were dead, and the future held only nights, a stretch of darkness that led down to the eternal dark.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Hear them rattle These chains of living Bound to every moment passed Until the wreckage clamours In deafening wake And each stride… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“All that he has ever asked of us, of me, and Spinnock Durav, and so many others, he has given us in… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“An unwillingness. I can carry no one else's burden - not even for a moment. We are all pulled inside ourselves now,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Even the gods felt close, drawn to witness all that was to come. Witness, or to seize the moment and act directly.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The miracle of hindsight is how it transforms great military geniuses of the past into incompetent idiots, and incompetent idiots of the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“The Tiste Edur studied the bonecaster for a long moment, as the tears ran down his gaunt cheeks. 'I weep, Monok Ochem,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Braven Tooth, you remember the last time I played-' 'That was the last time?' 'It was, and there's been a lot who've… — 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
“The gods have been kicking us around for a long time. When do we say enough?' 'And in their absence, High Fist,… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Where resides the comforting knowledge of history's vast, cyclical sweep, the ebb and flow of wars and peace? Peace is the time… — 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
“They consider themselves masters at cheating. But then, I think this will be the first time that they sit at a table… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“History, she realized, was mostly lost. No matter how diligent the recorders, the witnesses, the researchers, most of the past simply no… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“long ago, there’d been choices he could have made that would have sent him on a different path. But those days were… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“My shamans have read the sands. They have learned much of your future. (...)’ Gamet was scowling. ‘I do not wish to… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Listen then these are the charms And will I see your pleasure stretched An even dozen they crowd the tomb You can… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“She asks, and something in your head tells you that what she’s doing is right – and that it’s the only reason… — 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
