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"We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned.. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance."

"...but no-one else gives a damn, because sometimea a smile is precisely what we all need."

So far, the world of the Malazan Empire has been harsh, cruel, bloody, dirty, foul, terrible and miserable. But it's lines like the quote above that prove that, at heart of it all, there's some hope.