Forge of Darkness (The Kharkanas Trilogy, #1)

by Steven Erikson

Mirrors, I fear, are an invitation to suicide.

To know too much is to lose the wonder of mystery. In answering every question we forget the value of not knowing.’

If holy words could not offer up an answer to despair, then what good were they? If the truths so revealed did not invite restitution, then their utterance was no more than a curse. And if the restitution is found not in the mortal realm, then we are invited to inaction, and indifference. Will you promise to a soul a reward buried in supposition? Are we to reach throughout our lives but never touch? Are we to dream and to hope, but never know?