House of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #4)

by Steven Erikson

Children from a dark house choose shadowed paths.

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

No matter how brief a child’s life, the love of the parents is a power that should not be denied. And know this, ’Siballe, it is immune to imperfection.’