R. Scott Bakker book The Judging Eye
TRIAMIS I, JOURNALS AND DIALOGUES
Source: The Judging Eye (2009)
“An item,” he said softly, his eyes on the disc, “that passes without provenance, pursued by many who thirst for its cold kiss, on which life and all that lay within life is often gambled. Alone, a beggar’s crown. In great numbers, a king’s folly. Weighted with ruin, yet blood washes from it beneath the lightest rain, and to the next no hint of its cost. It is as it is, says Kruppe, worthless but for those who insist otherwise.”
— Steven Erikson, book Gardens of the Moon
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 7 (pp. 233-234)
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