The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

by Steven Erikson

Sadness belonged. As rightful as joy, love, grief and fear. All conditions of being.

‘If we are to live,’ Rake went on, ‘we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name. There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail – should we fall – we will know that we have lived.’