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the siren song/called silence
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A man pushed from behind by many hands will go in but one direction, no matter what he wills.
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If need be, the round man can prove a most blunt barrier.Just ask the man with the hammer. — Steven Erikson
To hide weakness behind bluster was to hide nothing at all.
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Rallick followed this by driving his other knife into Orr's chest.
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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?
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Rage and unbearable pain meshed together like twin strands in an ever-tightening rope.
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High house shadow, and a knife in the dark. A new game's begun, or the old one's just turned.
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When faiths take knife in hand, surely every god must turn away.
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She felt his eyes exploring her like ghost hands.
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Never mind the truth. The past is what I say it is. That is the freedom of teaching the ignorant.
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No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.
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Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.
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The boy walks another soldier, another one bright heart not yet cooled to hard iron
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What is given away for free comes back wounded. Value is not always shared and some hands are rougher than others.
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You mortals baffle me.
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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.
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To draw a weapon is to announce an end to uncertainty.
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Names are not for the asking, mortal. Names are earned.
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Tattersail smiled. The only death I fear is dying ignorant.
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And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.
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Leaves skirled past, clattering like tiny bones.
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Autumn rains drumming overhead, they had squatted in a half-circle, facing north, and watched as seven robed and hooded figures approached.
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Paran flicked his gaze to his weapon, glared back up and around at the warriors, then his eyes returned to Chance. And stayed there.
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When it is all one can do to simply hold on, then to suffer is to weather a deluge no god can ease
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Every gift is edged.
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Black, scorched scars crossed the battlefield as if a god's claws had swept down to join the slaughter.
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All too often cowardice wears the habit of wounded pride.' Anomander
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Innocence was a blade of glory, yet it could blind on both sides.
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The midday heat sapped her strength, and the sluggishness reached through to her thoughts
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Peregrination has been anything but peaceful.
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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!
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She eyed him steadily, wondering at his sudden ... humanity. Maybe dying did away with the usual games, the pretenses of the living dance.
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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.
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Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.
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the mind that has convinced itself of its own superiority is incapable of humility, and in the absence of humility, it is incapable of growth.
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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.
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It slowly dawned on the thief that a duel was but moments away.
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It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.
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Even in sleep, guilt makes it's point
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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.
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But what did Tattersail teach you? "If things get too hot," he said, "pull out, Toc. Ride
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Accord dissolves but blame is impossible to assign, leading to malaise, confusion and a vacuous resentment.
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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.
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Darkness was anathema to shadows.
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Whatever evil you let ride becomes commonplace, eventually. Problem is, it's easier to get used to it than carve it out.
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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
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But the ground rumbled with a growing, urgent thunder.
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What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They're allowed to think.
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The man patrolling his prejudices never sleeps.
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Death? Since when is death failure?
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The lesson of history is that no one learns.
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When one does not know what one seeks, caution is the surest armour.
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The ground is bare and hard / and will hold all secrets / and the sky cares not / for the games of those beneath it.
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Or, rather, you irritate everyone, Curdle. Because you're so unreliable.''I'm not always unreliable, Telorast. — Steven Erikson
Where flies Korabas, there shall be T'iam.
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Wind slapped them against the cliff face, then yanked them outward in a biting swirl of airborne sand.
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That is all faith is, you know. Pity for our souls.
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Hard lives begat hard laws, not just in the necessities of living, but also in those of believing.
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Felisin ducked as something winged past her, leaving in its wake a musty, dead smell.
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Your name's now Limp. Aye, not very imaginative, but it's like this. If you can't hear Hood laughing, well, I can.
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Is there anything more worthless than excuses?-Emperor Kellanved — Steven Erikson
How many times, dear traveller, will you walk the same path?
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The girl stopped to regard him, her small round face slowly coming to mirror Paran's own frown.
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A book of prophesy opens the doors.You need a second book to close it.
Tanno Spiritwalker Kimloc — Steven Erikson
In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every solider in every world.
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Play on, mortal. Every god falls at a mortal's hands. Such is the only end to immortality.
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Secrets have power so long as they remain secrets
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The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.
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Fiddler straightened, eyes on the stars glittering overhead. Desert stars, sharp diamonds that ever seemed eager to draw blood.
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Against ignorance there is no front line. Against viciousness no border can hold. It breeds as readily behind your back as elsewhere.' 'What
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Rhizan gathered in writhing clumps at his hands and feet,
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My anthropological back gets raised hackles with simple worlds and simple conflicts. Nothing's simple. Nothing ever was.
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Fuck one thing and it fucks everything else. The
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He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.'Gothos' Folly — Steven Erikson
Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
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No-one chooses me. I do not give anyone that right. I am Karsa Orlong of the Teblor. All choices belong to me.
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The girl spoke, a tone of command that rang like iron on stone.
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Regaining control of the gelding, Fiddler drove his heels into its flanks. They bolted forward, savagely riding down the group's generous leader.
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A bludgeon of wives (surely that must be the plural assignation)!
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