Strange Trees

“The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“Purest light will blind as surely as absolute darkness.”
― Steven Erikson, Fall of Light

“You’re loitering, citizen.”
“Actually, I was hesitating.”
― Steven Erikson, Bauchelain and Korbal Broach

“Most bravery, dear little one,’ he said as he pulled the dog from the water and rested it across the back of his thickly muscled neck, ‘is marked by a strength less than imagined, and a hope farther from reach than one expects.”
― Steven Erikson, Forge of Darkness