Quotes From "Deadhouse Gates" By Steven Erikson

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We go to partake of death. And it is in these moments, before the blades are unsheated, before blood wets the ground and screams fill the air, that the futility descends upon us all. Without our armor, we would all weep. Steven Erikson
If not for a dumb beast's incomprehension at its own...
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If not for a dumb beast's incomprehension at its own destruction beneaththe loving hands of two heartbroken children. Steven Erikson
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Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome Steven Erikson
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The siren song/called silence Steven Erikson
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A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider, ' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that. Steven Erikson
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Words were numbers were codes were formulae. Words held secret maps, the measuring of paces, the patterns of mortal minds, of histories, of cities, of continents and warrens. Steven Erikson
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People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche - effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding. It was easy for them, safe, and that was the whole point, after all: a statement of coddled opulence that burned the throats of the poor more than any ostentatious show of wealth. Steven Erikson
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What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think. Steven Erikson
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She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, the old scar tissue the only place on him unclaimed by Fener, but the paths the sprites took to those stumps touched not a single tattooed line. The flies dance a dance of avoidance - but for all that, they were eager to dance. Steven Erikson
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Silence! ” Korbolo snapped. He eyed Duiker. “You are the historian who rode with Coltaine.”The historian faced him. “I am.”“ You are a soldier.”“ As you say.”“ I do, and so you shall die with these soldiers, in a manner no different-““ You mean to slaughter ten thousand unarmed men and women, Korbolo Dom?”“I mean to cripple Tavore before she even sets foot on this continent. I mean to make her too furious to think. I mean to crack that façade so she dreams of vengeance day and night, poisoning her every decision.”“ You always fashioned yourself as the Empire’s harshest Fist, didn’t you, Korbolo Dom? As if cruelty’s a virtue… . Steven Erikson