“ For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives. Steven Erikson
“ But Hood was not yet done with her. He swung her up again, spun and once more hammered her onto the stone. 'I have had,' the Jaghut roared, and into the air she went again, and down once more, 'enough… Steven Erikson
“ People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche - effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding. It was easy for them, safe, and that was the whole… Steven Erikson
“ Memory did not let go; it remained the net dragged in one's wake, with all sorts of strange things snarled in the knotted strands. Steven Erikson
“ He waited a moment, as they walked side by side through the camp, and then asked, 'Sir, if there's something we can't handle how do we handle it anyway?' She either grunted or laughed from the same pl… Steven Erikson
“ The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief. Steven Erikson
“ The trust I have...for some people...comes down to how well I know them, and then it's a matter of my trusting them to do what I think they're going to do. Steven Erikson
“ Words were numbers were codes were formulae. Words held secret maps, the measuring of paces, the patterns of mortal minds, of histories, of cities, of continents and warrens. Steven Erikson
“ You had the physical bullies and the emotional bullies and they both revelled in destroying lives.No, she had no time for them. But there were others whose strength was of a much rarer kind. Not easy… Steven Erikson
“ A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potenti… Steven Erikson
“ 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 don’t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensin… Steven Erikson
“ Gather close, and let us speak of nasty little shits. Oh, come now, we are no strangers to the vicious demons in placid disguises, innocent eyes so wide, hidden minds so dark. Does evil exist? Is it a… Steven Erikson
“ Awful things, children. Needy, self-centered tyrants, the boys all teeth and firsts, the girls all claws and spit. Gathering into sniveling packs and sniffing out vulnerabilities — and woe to the chil… Steven Erikson
“ I am Crone, eldest of the Moon's Great Ravens, whose eyes have looked upon a hundred thousand years of human folly. Hence my tattered coat and broken beak as evidence of your indiscriminate destructio… Steven Erikson
“ ..."Were hostages ever killed?"She shook her head. "Not until the end. When everything...fell apart. "All it needs,",she said, memories clouding her mind, "is the breaking of one rule, one law. A brea… Steven Erikson
“ In my dreams I come face to face with myriad reflections of myself, all unknown and passing strange. They speak unending in languages not my own and walk with companions I have never met, in places my… Steven Erikson
