“I look at you and I see a man because that’s what men are capable of—I don’t hunt for excuses because I don’t like to think that that’s how nasty we can get. We look at Sorry and we see reflections of ourselves. Hood take it, if we don’t like what we see.”

— Steven Erikson , book Gardens of the Moon

Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 4 (p. 124)

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