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.”’

‘He say anything about all this drinking our own piss?’ Tarr frowned. Koryk spoke up, ‘Sure he did, Cuttle. It’s all in that Deck of Dragons of his. New card. Piss Drinker, High House.’

‘It is not enough to wish for a better world for the children. It is not enough to shield them with ease and comfort. Lostara Yil, if we do not sacrifice our own ease, our own comfort, to make the future’s world a better one, then we curse our own children. We leave them a misery they do not deserve; we leave them a host of lessons unearned.