“Your guest is mundane, a restless personage whose thoughts are thick with greed and treachery. A demon crouches on his shoulder, named Ambition.”

— Steven Erikson , book Gardens of the Moon

Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 6 (p. 187)

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Canadian fantasy author 1959

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