Mark Moroknek

“Is civilization”
― Steven Erikson, Forge of Darkness

“All this time, she’d thought it meant something else, to do with fire in the blood and skin tingling at a certain touch, when really it was all about completely different things—food, shelter, comfort, money, a defensible space, something that would still be there in the morning. Stupid, she thought. It takes a valley full of dead bodies and a burned-out inn and her mother’s grave and a night with Axio and Senza Belot trashing and torching everything in his path to reveal the true definition of an everyday word. Simpler to have bought a dictionary.”
― K.J. Parker, Two of Swords: Volume Three

“increases”
― Steven Erikson, Forge of Darkness