House of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #4)

by Steven Erikson

See what happens, my dear Teblor, when your tribe gets too big? Suddenly, the simplest things become ungainly, unmanageable. Confusion seeps in like fog, and everyone gropes blind and dumb.’

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

The unattainable victory over nature, over nature’s uncertainty. There are many words for this struggle. Order against chaos, structure against dissolution, light against dark, life against death. But they all mean the same thing.’