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“First in , Last out.


Motto of the bridgeburners”
― Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice

“And now the page before us blurs.
An age is done. The book must close.
We are abandoned to history.
Raise high one more time the tattered standard
Of the Fallen. See through the drifting smoke
To the dark stains upon the fabric.
This is the blood of our lives, this is the
Payment of our deeds, all soon to be
Forgotten.
We were never what people could be.
We were only what we were.

Remember us.”
― Steven Erikson, The Crippled God

“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