“Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape.”

— Steven Erikson, book Midnight Tides

Midnight Tides (2004)
Context: Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.

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Canadian fantasy author 1959

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