The Crippled God (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #10)

by Steven Erikson

How can one give so freely of love to another, when the final outcome is one of betrayal? When one must leave the other – to be the betrayer who dies, to be the betrayed left alive. How can this be an even exchange, with death waiting at the end?

If you knew where this path led Would you have walked it? If you knew the pain at love’s solemn end Would you have awakened