The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

by Steven Erikson

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

In love, grief is a promise.

One sure measure of intelligence, after all, was in the accurate anticipation of consequences.

The one who accuses has nothing to lose and everything to hide.

Closer to their god than to their unordained flock.