Shaun

“Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.

And this, she now realized, was the reason why the gods did nothing. Proof of their omniscience. After all, to act was to announce awful limitations, for it revealed that chance acted first, the accidents were just that--events beyond the will of the gods--and all they could do in answer was to attempt to remedy the consequences, to alter natural ends. To act, then, was an admission of fallibility.”
― Steven Erikson

“The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White

“Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Four Ways to Forgiveness

“People don’t change to suit their god; they change their god to suit them.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds