Randall Roberts

“When wealth ascends to a point where the majority of the poor finally comprehend that it is, for each of them, unattainable, then all civility collapses, and anarchy prevails.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.”
― Glen Cook, Chronicles of the Black Company

“It clearly hasn’t occurred to either of you that maybe Fiddler wants it that way. Wants to be called Strings, now, because his old life is gone, and with the old name comes bad memories, and he’s had enough of those.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“Rain rushed down from the sky, blinding and blind, indifferent and mindless, but it held no meaning beyond that. How could it? It was just rain, descending from the sky’s massed legion of grieving clouds. And the crying wind was the breath of natural laws, born high in the mountains or out at sea. Its voice promised nothing. There was no meaning to be found in lifeless weather, in the pulsing of tides and in the wake of turning seasons. No meaning to living and dying, either. The tyrant was clothed in gold, and the future smelled of blood. It meant nothing.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides