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Steven Erikson kanadai archeológus, antropológus, író.

✵ 7. október 1959  •  Más nevek სტივენ ერიკსონი, استیون اریکسون
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Steven Erikson: Idézetek angolul

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

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Steven Erikson könyv Toll the Hounds

Forrás: 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…”

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Steven Erikson könyv Memories of Ice

Forrás: 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)”

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“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”

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Steven Erikson könyv Deadhouse Gates

Forrás: Deadhouse Gates

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

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Steven Erikson könyv Reaper's Gale

Forrás: Reaper's Gale

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

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Steven Erikson könyv The Bonehunters

Forrás: The Bonehunters

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

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Steven Erikson könyv Deadhouse Gates

Forrás: Deadhouse Gates

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

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Steven Erikson könyv Gardens of the Moon

Forrás: Gardens of the Moon

“Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.”

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Steven Erikson könyv Midnight Tides

Forrás: Midnight Tides (2004)

“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.”

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Steven Erikson könyv Midnight Tides

Forrás: Midnight Tides

“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.”

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Steven Erikson könyv Deadhouse Gates

Forrás: Deadhouse Gates

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

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Steven Erikson könyv Gardens of the Moon

Forrás: 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.”

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Steven Erikson könyv House of Chains

Forrás: 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.”

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Steven Erikson könyv Deadhouse Gates

Forrás: Deadhouse Gates

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

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Steven Erikson könyv The Bonehunters

Forrás: 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.”

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Steven Erikson könyv House of Chains

Forrás: 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.”

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Steven Erikson könyv Memories of Ice

Forrás: 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.”

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Steven Erikson könyv Reaper's Gale

Forrás: 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.”

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“Courting is the art of growing like mould on the one you want.”

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Steven Erikson könyv The Crippled God

Forrás: The Crippled God

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

‘Temper, you mean.’

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

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Steven Erikson könyv Toll the Hounds

Forrás: Toll the Hounds

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

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Steven Erikson könyv Dust of Dreams

Forrás: Dust of Dreams

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

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Steven Erikson könyv House of Chains

House of Chains (2002)
Kontextus: "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 mortals baffle me.”

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Steven Erikson könyv 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.”

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Steven Erikson könyv 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.”

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Steven Erikson könyv Forge of Darkness

Forge of Darkness (2013)

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

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Steven Erikson könyv Gardens of the Moon

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