Sean McCann

“He had told himself that it was an act of courage to let her go, to give her the final decision. Courage and sacrifice. He no longer believed that. There was no sacrifice made in being abandoned. There was no courage in doing nothing.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“They are human, after all, and it is human nature to transform loss into a virtue. So that it might be lived with, so that it might be justified.”
― Steven Erikson, House of Chains

“It is an extraordinary act of courage,’ said Tulas Shorn, ‘to come to know a stranger’s pain. To even consider such a thing demands a profound dispensation, a willingness to wear someone else’s chains, to taste their suffering, to see with one’s own eyes the hue cast on all things – the terrible stain that is despair.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“The heart is neither given nor stolen. The heart surrenders.”
― Steven Erikson, House of Chains