Kiril

“Our education system no longer teaches empathy,’ Sam said. ‘Now, if everybody in college had to take a minor in Literature, the world would be a better place.”
― Steven Erikson, Rejoice

“The present age is only unique because you live in it. When you die, you cease to care about that age. And you know this. Which is why you don’t care about anything past your own life. Why should you? It follows, quite reasonably, that every generation is righteous in cursing the one that precedes it. Namely, yours. And the vicious fighting withdrawal that is your own conservatism – this bitter, hate-filled war against change – is doomed to fail, because no age lasts for ever. One follows upon the next and this is an inescapable fact. So step aside. Your day is done. Any regression into childish tantrums makes a mockery of wisdom. The age dies with you, as it must, and you now show its face to be that of a mewling child who can no longer hold on to what has ceased to exist. Synthraeas”
― Steven Erikson, The God is Not Willing: The First Tale of Witness

“Similarly clad women stood by the muddy well, pausing in their endless dunking of cats – a bemusing activity, its symbolism lost on the man as he hurried past.”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon

“To the joy and the life in the eyes of my friend, I will fight all those who deem him their enemy.”
― Steven Erikson, Reaper's Gale