Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

by Steven Erikson

‘Victory tastes sweetest in the absence of haunting memories, Bult. Savour it.

‘That’s a succinct summary of humankind, I’d say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

‘Pogroms need no reason, sir, none that can weather challenge, in any case. Difference in kind is the first recognition, the only one needed, in fact. Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks – all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are not them.’