The God is Not Willing (Witness #1)

by Steven Erikson

Strange how things said that made no sense could stay in the memory, while all the truths just fell away, abandoned in the way of things that had little relevance.

Stupid people always had a reason to be angry but didn’t have the capacity to understand that they were angry because they were frustrated, and they were frustrated because they didn’t understand, and they didn’t understand because they were stupid.

So, when you cheat and think you got away with it, you didn’t. When you cause suffering in someone, either directly or with your own indifference, the ledger inside records it. And the scales tip, and that suffering will return to you, and your soul will one day know the anguish you delivered.’

All hope of freedom is lost when the past is a prison you will not leave, Andrison Balk.

‘You’d rather stay and die instead of go and live?’ ‘And you might think that’s an easy choice to make.’