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“Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“People don’t change to suit their god; they change their god to suit them.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“Rely not upon conscience,’ Feren said, hearing the bitterness in her own voice and not caring. ‘It ever kneels to necessity.’ ‘And necessity is often a lie,”
― Steven Erikson, Forge of Darkness

“What see you in the horizon's bruised smear
That cannot be blotted out
By your raised hand?”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates