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“Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.”

Steven Erikson book Deadhouse Gates

Source: Deadhouse Gates

“Words are like coin—it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.”

Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon

Source: Gardens of the Moon

“Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains

“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 book Deadhouse Gates

Source: Deadhouse Gates

“Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.”

Steven Erikson book The Bonehunters

Source: The Bonehunters

“I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains

“I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.”

Steven Erikson book Memories of Ice

Source: Memories of Ice

“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 book Reaper's Gale

Source: Reaper's Gale

“Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.”

Steven Erikson

“Now, invite me in, before I lose my temperature.’

‘Temper, you mean.’

‘No, temperature. It’s getting chilly.”

Steven Erikson book Toll the Hounds

Source: Toll the Hounds

“In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every solider in every world.”

Steven Erikson book Dust of Dreams

Source: Dust of Dreams

“Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

House of Chains (2002)
Context: "There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself."
"With words."

“You cannot be remade unless you are first broken.”

Steven Erikson book Deadhouse Gates

Deadhouse Gates

“You mortals baffle me.”

Steven Erikson book Midnight Tides

Midnight Tides

“But now Apsalar was trying to tell him that competence was not justification. That necessity demanded its own path and there was no virtue to be found at its heart.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

House of Chains (2002)

“What worth peace when it was maintained by threat?
It was only the fearful who knelt in worship before order, and Galar refused to leave in fear.”

Steven Erikson book Forge of Darkness

Forge of Darkness (2013)

“An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

House of Chains (2002)

“He had nowhere to look for answers, and he was tired of asking questions.”

Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon

Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 11 (p. 341)