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“Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly."
"I want to be a soldier. A hero."
"You'll grow out of it.”

Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon

Prologue (p. 5)
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999)
Context: “Heed the lesson there, son.”
“What lesson?”
“Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don’t notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.”
“I want to be a soldier. A hero.”
“You’ll grow out of it.”

“One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains

“Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.”

Steven Erikson book Deadhouse Gates

Source: Deadhouse Gates

“I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command." The man made to rise.
"But, Bauchelain," the wizard replied, "I did.”

Steven Erikson book Memories of Ice

Source: Memories of Ice

“They've had a long time to think,' Paran murmured. 'Sometimes, that's all there's needed. The heart of wisdom is tolerance. I think.”

Steven Erikson book Memories of Ice

Source: Memories of Ice (2001)

“The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.”

Steven Erikson book Memories of Ice

Source: Memories of Ice

“He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.'
Gothos' Folly”

Steven Erikson book The Crippled God

Source: The Crippled God

“The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.”

Steven Erikson book Toll the Hounds

Source: Toll the Hounds

“Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women. He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it…”

Steven Erikson book Memories of Ice

Source: Memories of Ice

“Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece. (Itkovian)”

Steven Erikson

“We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again."
~Fiddler, pg. 558”

Steven Erikson book Deadhouse Gates

Source: Deadhouse Gates

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

Steven Erikson book Reaper's Gale

Source: Reaper's Gale

“When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.”

Steven Erikson book The Bonehunters

Source: The Bonehunters

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

Steven Erikson book Deadhouse Gates

Source: Deadhouse Gates

“Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead.”

Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon

Source: Gardens of the Moon

“We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten.”

Steven Erikson book Midnight Tides

Source: Midnight Tides