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the siren song/called silence — Steven Erikson

A man pushed from behind by many hands will go in but one direction, no matter what he wills. — Steven Erikson

If need be, the round man can prove a most blunt barrier.
Just ask the man with the hammer. — Steven Erikson

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live. — Erik Erikson

Rallick followed this by driving his other knife into Orr's chest. — Steven Erikson

We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good. — Leif Erikson

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say? — Steven Erikson

Rage and unbearable pain meshed together like twin strands in an ever-tightening rope. — Steven Erikson

High house shadow, and a knife in the dark. A new game's begun, or the old one's just turned. — Steven Erikson

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is. — Erik Erikson

She felt his eyes exploring her like ghost hands. — Steven Erikson

Never mind the truth. The past is what I say it is. That is the freedom of teaching the ignorant. — Steven Erikson

Mortal, yours is a surpassing conceit ... which I cannot but applaud. — Steven Erikson

No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes. — Steven Erikson

You have learned much, Karsa Orlong."
"I have, T'lan Imass. As you shall witness. — Steven Erikson

The boy walks another soldier, another one bright heart not yet cooled to hard iron — Steven Erikson

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him. — Erik Erikson

What is given away for free comes back wounded. Value is not always shared and some hands are rougher than others. — Steven Erikson

You mortals baffle me. — Steven Erikson

Now, invite me in, before I lose my temperature.'

'Temper, you mean.'

'No, temperature. It's getting chilly. — Steven Erikson

Soldiers have nothing to look forward to, making patience an easy virtue, and sometimes it's not just a virtue but a contest of indifference. — Steven Erikson

Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication. — Steven Erikson

To draw a weapon is to announce an end to uncertainty. — Steven Erikson

Names are not for the asking, mortal. Names are earned. — Steven Erikson

Tattersail smiled. The only death I fear is dying ignorant. — Steven Erikson

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds. — Steven Erikson

Leaves skirled past, clattering like tiny bones. — Steven Erikson

Autumn rains drumming overhead, they had squatted in a half-circle, facing north, and watched as seven robed and hooded figures approached. — Steven Erikson

Paran flicked his gaze to his weapon, glared back up and around at the warriors, then his eyes returned to Chance. And stayed there. — Steven Erikson

The wine is gone. Only sour wine fumes remain. Drunkenness pretends to resolution. — Steven Erikson

When it is all one can do to simply hold on, then to suffer is to weather a deluge no god can ease — Steven Erikson

History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity. — Steven Erikson

Every gift is edged. — Steven Erikson

The door flew open, carrying into the room a gust of steamy air and then Trotts. — Steven Erikson

Black, scorched scars crossed the battlefield as if a god's claws had swept down to join the slaughter. — Steven Erikson

All too often cowardice wears the habit of wounded pride.' Anomander — Steven Erikson

Innocence was a blade of glory, yet it could blind on both sides. — Steven Erikson

The midday heat sapped her strength, and the sluggishness reached through to her thoughts — Steven Erikson

Peregrination has been anything but peaceful. — Steven Erikson

My God," Hadrian said. "They finally did it! All those oh-so-cute-my-cuddly-kitten-here's-a-pic bastard! They finally went and did it! — Steven Erikson

She eyed him steadily, wondering at his sudden ... humanity. Maybe dying did away with the usual games, the pretenses of the living dance. — Steven Erikson

Kruppe nodded. Kruppe is no fool, K'rul. He openly opposes no one, and he finds power a thing to be avoided at all costs. — Steven Erikson

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility. — Steven Erikson

Peace reigned in silence, inside and out, in isolation and exhaustion. — Steven Erikson

He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were two words for the same thing. — Steven Erikson

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand. — Steven Erikson

Play on, mortal. Every god falls at a mortal's hands. Such is the only end to immortality. — Steven Erikson

Fiddler straightened, eyes on the stars glittering overhead. Desert stars, sharp diamonds that ever seemed eager to draw blood. — Steven Erikson

The curse of climbing is discovering how great the distance yet to climb. — Steven Erikson

Accord dissolves but blame is impossible to assign, leading to malaise, confusion and a vacuous resentment. — 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 power we all sank. — Steven Erikson

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly. — Erik Erikson

Doubt is the brother of shame. — Erik Erikson

Even in sleep, guilt makes it's point — Steven Erikson

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play. — Erik Erikson

But the ground rumbled with a growing, urgent thunder. — Steven Erikson

Your name's now Limp. Aye, not very imaginative, but it's like this. If you can't hear Hood laughing, well, I can. — Steven Erikson

Is there anything more worthless than excuses?
-Emperor Kellanved — Steven Erikson

How many times, dear traveller, will you walk the same path? — Steven Erikson

But what did Tattersail teach you? "If things get too hot," he said, "pull out, Toc. Ride — Steven Erikson

No matter how hard you dance, not everyone will clap — Joan Erikson

The girl stopped to regard him, her small round face slowly coming to mirror Paran's own frown. — Steven Erikson

Lost ages are neither more nor less profound than the one we live in right now. — Steven Erikson

Against a broken heart, even absurdity falters.
Because words fall away.
A dialogue of silence.
That deafens. — Steven Erikson

His agonized scream rode the cascading waves of power as they swept across the terrace. — Steven Erikson

Darkness was anathema to shadows. — Steven Erikson

Fiddler turned in his seat and met his corporal's dark eyes. Trouble? Maybe. The exchange was silent, a product of years fighting side by side. Crokus — Steven Erikson

A book of prophesy opens the doors.
You need a second book to close it.
Tanno Spiritwalker Kimloc — Steven Erikson

Whatever evil you let ride becomes commonplace, eventually. Problem is, it's easier to get used to it than carve it out. — Steven Erikson

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords. — Erik Erikson

Wind slapped them against the cliff face, then yanked them outward in a biting swirl of airborne sand. — Steven Erikson

Where flies Korabas, there shall be T'iam. — Steven Erikson

The courage of husbands is directly proportionate to the proximity of the wife. — Steven Erikson

Or, rather, you irritate everyone, Curdle. Because you're so unreliable.'
'I'm not always unreliable, Telorast. — Steven Erikson

The simple ones aren't simple. The broken ones aren't broken. They are rearranged. — Steven Erikson

The ground is bare and hard / and will hold all secrets / and the sky cares not / for the games of those beneath it. — Steven Erikson

You can actively flee, then, and you can actively stay put. — Erik Erikson

When one does not know what one seeks, caution is the surest armour. — Steven Erikson

I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them. — Steven Erikson

That is all faith is, you know. Pity for our souls. — Steven Erikson

A bludgeon of wives (surely that must be the plural assignation)! — Steven Erikson

Regaining control of the gelding, Fiddler drove his heels into its flanks. They bolted forward, savagely riding down the group's generous leader. — Steven Erikson

Abject misery lies not in what the blanket reveals, but in what it hides. — Steven Erikson

The girl spoke, a tone of command that rang like iron on stone. — Steven Erikson

No-one chooses me. I do not give anyone that right. I am Karsa Orlong of the Teblor. All choices belong to me. — Steven Erikson

Felisin ducked as something winged past her, leaving in its wake a musty, dead smell. — Steven Erikson

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat. — Steven Erikson

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.'
Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson

In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every solider in every world. — Steven Erikson

Fuck one thing and it fucks everything else. The — Steven Erikson

My anthropological back gets raised hackles with simple worlds and simple conflicts. Nothing's simple. Nothing ever was. — Steven Erikson

We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians. — Erik Erikson

Corporal Clasp crawled up beside him. 'That's one of those Fuckeral's, isn't it? — Steven Erikson

Rhizan gathered in writhing clumps at his hands and feet, — Steven Erikson

Hard lives begat hard laws, not just in the necessities of living, but also in those of believing. — Steven Erikson

Adolescents need freedom to choose, but not so much freedom that they cannot, in fact, make a choice. — Erik Erikson

Against ignorance there is no front line. Against viciousness no border can hold. It breeds as readily behind your back as elsewhere.' 'What — Steven Erikson

The harder the world, the fiercer the honour. — Steven Erikson

Secrets have power so long as they remain secrets — Steven Erikson

The psychoanalytic method is essentially a historical method. — Erik Erikson