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“It`s very hard for a man to fight naked.”
― Stephen King

“The folks who end up living the life they expected are more often than not end up taking sleeping pills or taking the barrel of a gun and pulling the trigger.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“You can shake your fist all you want but dead is dead.”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon

“Even in sleep, guilt makes it`s point”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon

“The closest held secret is the one that never sours with age.”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon

“Soldiers have nothing to look forward to, making patience an easy virtue, and sometimes it`s not just a virtue but a contest of indifference.”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon

“There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon

“History comforts the dull-witted,”” the young Malazan said.

Beneth barked a laugh as he reached the gate. “And whose words are those, Pella? Not yours.”

The guard’s brows rose, then shrugged. “I forget you’re Korelri sometimes, Beneth. Those words? Emperor Kellanved.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“Children are dying."
Lull nodded. "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.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“The harder the world the fiercer the honor”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“In success we shall find seeds of despair”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“The hand of vengeance stayed cold only so long. Any soul possessing a shred of humanity could not help but see the reality behind cruel deliverance, no matter how justified it might have at first seemed. Faces blank in death. Bodies twisted in postures no-one unbroken could achieve. Destroyed lives. Vengeance yielded a mirror to every atrocity, where notions of right and wrong blurred and lost all relevance. He”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“A man possessing power must act decisively, Ganoes Paran. Else it trickle away through his fingers.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so very briefly, was of far vaster and deeper import than it truly was. Of all the weapons we chose to turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance.”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“Secrets have power so long as they remain secrets”
― Steven Erikson, House of Chains

“There is no armor made that can withstand the truth.
-Karsa Orlong.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“To love in absence is to float on ever still waters. No sudden currents, no treacherous tides, no possibility of drowning.”
― Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale

“There is, as a legion of morose poets well know, nothing inconsequential about love. Nor all those peculiarities of related appetites often confused for love, for example lust, possession, amorous worship, appalling notions of abject surrender where one’s own will is bled out in sacrifice, obsessions of the fetishistic sort that might include earlobes or toenails or regurgitated foodstuffs, and indeed that adolescent competitiveness which in adults—adults who should of course know better but don’t—is manifested as insane jealousy.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“But the value was an illusion. Hate was a lie that in feeding fills the hater with the feeling of satiation, even as his spirit starves.”
― Steven Erikson

“There was an old saying among the Perish that a room full of women was a knife-seller’s vision of paradise. ‘There will be betrayal.’ Oh yes indeed. Betrayal .”
― Steven Erikson, The Crippled God

“When wisdom drips blood fools stand triumphant.”
― Gothos

“Even a man who has lived a life of sorrows will ask for one more day.”
― Steven Erikson, The Crippled God

“... for, him that is humble God will exalt”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Dom Quixote de la Mancha

“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Dom Quixote de la Mancha

“No man is more than another unless he can do more than another”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Dom Quixote de la Mancha

“there is no recollection which time does not put an end to, and no pain which death does not remove.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“Bare i was born and bare i remain and if i lose nothing was little i gain”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote