The more civilized a nation, the more conformed its population, until that civilization's last age arrives, when multiplicity wages war with conformity.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Legana Breed spoke: 'You are all marines?' 'Aye,' Fiddler said. 'Tonight, then, I too am a marine. Let us go kill people.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“My anthropological back gets raised hackles with simple worlds and simple conflicts. Nothing's simple. Nothing ever was.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“In my lifelong study of the scores of species of ants to be found in the tropical forests of Dal Hon, I… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“An old man emerged from the ditch, a creature Of mud and wild autumn winds capering Like a hare across a bouldered… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish.… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still… — 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
“War needs no gods, only mortal contestants, two enemies and whatever reasons they invent in order to justify killing each other.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Iskaral Pust’s warbling battle cry was somewhat strangled as he leaned forward, perched high in the stirrups, hands reaching like a raptor’s… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks - all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us.… — 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
“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 the horror of war that, with each newly arrived generation, the nightmare is reprised by innocents.” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“I am the last of the Kerluhm. The Ifayle, who heeded our first summons, are all but destroyed. Those few that remain… — 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
