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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
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
No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.
— Steven Erikson
The boy walks another soldier, another one bright heart not yet cooled to hard iron
— Steven 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
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
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
Every gift is edged.
— 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
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
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
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
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
Or, rather, you irritate everyone, Curdle. Because you're so unreliable.''I'm not always unreliable, Telorast. — 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
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
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
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
