Steven Erikson

“No matter, they weren’t going anywhere. Never again. Two skeletons buried beneath a dead city. No more fitting a barrow for a…

— 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

“I am here to arrest your manservant. The one named Bugg.’ ‘Oh, now really, his cooking isn’t that bad.”

— Steven Erikson

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

“People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in…

— Steven Erikson

“Envy shrugged. 'Can no value be found in good intentions?' 'What, precisely, are you trying to justify? And to me, or yourself?'…

— Steven Erikson

Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

— Steven Erikson

“The existance of many gods conveys true complexity of mortal life. Conversely, the assertion of but one god leads to a denial…

— Steven Erikson

“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

“There is nothing wrong with where we are, how we are. You spit on satisfaction, leaving you always unsettled and miserable. I…

— Steven Erikson

“Why do I hate spiders? Gods, who doesn't? What a stupid question.”

— Steven Erikson

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

— Steven Erikson

“I admit,’ said Spite, ‘to a certain melancholy when visiting vibrant cities, as is this Darujhistan. A long life teaches one just…

— Steven Erikson

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have…

— Steven Erikson

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

— Steven Erikson

“The scars without are the scars within.”

— Steven Erikson

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit…

— Steven Erikson

“Too many regrets. Lost chances—and with each one passing the less human we all became, and the deeper into the nightmare of…

— Steven Erikson

“Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.”

— Steven Erikson

“money’s just an idea, it has power. Only it’s not real power. Just the promise of power. But that promise is enough…

— Steven Erikson

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem…

— Steven Erikson

“We are not born innocent, simply unmeasured.”

— Steven Erikson

“By the Lady’s never-sucked teats!” “Elas Sil!” “Oh shut up! I’m a woman, I can curse about things like that. Wait, it’s…

— Steven Erikson

“Or, rather, you irritate everyone, Curdle. Because you're so unreliable.' 'I'm not always unreliable, Telorast.”

— Steven Erikson

I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and…

— Steven Erikson