Andy Mardon

“Sadness was, she well knew, not something that could be cured. It was not, in fact, a failing, not a flaw, not an illness of spirit. Sadness was never without reason, and to assert that it marked some kind of dysfunction did little more than prove ignorance or, worse, cowardly evasiveness in the one making the assertion. As if happiness was the only legitimate way of being. As if those failing at it needed to be locked away, made soporific with medications; as if the causes of sadness were merely traps and pitfalls in the proper climb to blissful contentment, things to be edged round or bridged, or leapt across on wings of false elation.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“I have tolerated the deceitful and the malicious for long enough. My sword shall now answer them.”
― Steven Erikson, House of Chains

“We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

“Body found floating by the docks . . .”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged