abdul.

“I have seen the face of sorrow
She looks away in the distance
Across all these bridges
From whence I came
And those spans, trussed and arched
Hold up our lives as we go back again
To how we thought then
To how we thought we thought then
I have seen sorrow's face,
But she is ever turned away
And her words leave me blind
Her eyes make me mute
I do not understand what she says to me
I do not know if to obey
Or attempt a flood of tears
I have seen her face
She does not speak
She does not weep
She does not know me
For I am but a stone fitted in place
On the bridge where she walks

Lay of the Bridgeburners
Toc the Younger”
― Steven Erikson

“Strange how a land untraveled can look so familiar"
Mappo blinked, the memories scattered by the sound of that familiar soft voice. He glanced up at Icarium. "Stranger still how the mind's eye can travel so far and so fast, yet return in an instant"
The Jhag smiled. "With that eye you might explore the entire world"
"With that eye you might escape it".”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“The dead are ever refashioned, for they have no defence against those who would use or abuse them – who they were, what their deeds meant.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“Draw a breath,
a deep breath,
now hold it, my friends,
hold it long
for the world
the world drowns.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters