Liam

“Oh, well, sometimes such gifts of curiosity, delight and adventure do indeed survive the stationary trek, said victims ending up as artists, scholars, inventors and other criminals bent on confounding the commonplace and the platitudes of peaceful living.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“And together they would bring civilization to ruin, whenever and wherever they found it. Because, for all the good it created, its sole purpose was to breed followers – enough to heave into motion forces of destruction, spreading a tide of blood at the whim of those few cynical tyrants born to lead. Lead, yes, with lies, with iron words – duty, honour, patriotism, freedom – that fed the wilfully stupid with grand purpose, with reason for misery and delivering misery in kind.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“Alone in this vast domed chamber, the thousand deaths refracted into ten thousand flinches in those glittering eyes.”
― Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale