abdul.

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

“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

“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

“We go to partake of death. And it is in these moments, before the blades are unsheated, before blood wets the ground and screams fill the air, that the futility descends upon us all. Without our armor, we would all weep.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates