Dust of Dreams (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #9)

by Steven Erikson

‘Sometimes,’ Brys ventured, ‘when nothing can be shared except regret, then regret must serve as the place to begin. Reconciliation does not demand that one side surrender to the other. The simple, mutual recognition that mistakes were made is in itself a closing of the divide.’

In arrogance we orphan ourselves, and then rail at the awful solitude we find on the road to death.