Quotes from book

Deadhouse Gates

“Children are dying."
Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”

“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”

“It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.”

“Ah, Fist, it’s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do.”

“What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.”

“Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.”

“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.”

“You cannot be remade unless you are first broken.”

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