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

by Steven Erikson

“Courting is the art of growing like mould on the one you want.”’

And therein lurks the cruellest truth of all. In the end, we are no different from every other cult, every other religion. Convincing ourselves of the righteousness of our path. Convincing ourselves that we alone hold to an immutable truth. Secure in the belief that everyone else is damned.