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House of Chains

House of Chains
Steven Erikson

House of Chains is the fourth volume of Canadian author Steven Erikson's epic fantasy series, the Malazan Book of the Fallen, and a direct sequel to the second volume in the series, Deadhouse Gates.

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“Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains (2002)

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“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.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains

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“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.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains

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

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

House of Chains (2002)
Context: "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."

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“One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains

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“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.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

House of Chains (2002)

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“An army that waits is soon an army at war with itself.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

House of Chains (2002)

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“Not that freedom ensured happiness. Indeed, to be free was to live in absence. Of responsibilities, of loyalties, of the pressures that expectation imposed.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

House of Chains (2002)

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“From the sun-drenched south slopes of Gris, where grow the finest grapes this world has seen. Is mine an informed opinion, you are wondering? Most assuredly so, lass, since I hold a majority interest in said vineyards”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

House of Chains (2002)

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“With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

House of Chains (2002)

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