Quote

I'll not deny I am impressed by your mastery of six warrens, Quick Ben. In retrospect, you should have held back on at least half of what you command. The man made to rise. But, Bauchelain, the wizard replied, I did.

Steven Erikson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
Steve Rune Lundin
Steve Lundin
Deny
Replied
Least
Mastery
Half
Impressed
Back
Quick
Made
Command
Men
Held
Wizard
Rise
Retrospect
Six
Wizards

More quotes by Steven Erikson

Image
We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again. ~Fiddler, pg. 558
Steven Erikson
Image
I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.
Steven Erikson
Image
With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought the story down to a human level, dispensing with the cliché archetypes of princes, kings, and evil sorcerers. Reading his stuff was like reading Vietnam War fiction on peyote.
Steven Erikson
Image
The heart of wisdom is tolerance.
Steven Erikson
Image
And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.
Steven Erikson
Image
For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.
Steven Erikson
Image
What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.
Steven Erikson
Image
So you say, with your shiny hair and pouty lips - and those breasts - just wait till you start dropping whelps, they'll be at your ankles one day, big as they are - not the whelps, the breasts. The whelps will be in your hair - no, not the shiny hair on your head, well, yes, that hair, but only as a manner of speech.
Steven Erikson
Image
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.
Steven Erikson
Image
Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made?
Steven Erikson
Image
There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.
Steven Erikson
Image
Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.
Steven Erikson
Image
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
Image
Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.
Steven Erikson
Image
Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
Steven Erikson
Image
The only death I fear is dying ignorant.
Steven Erikson
Image
Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.
Steven Erikson
Image
First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners
Steven Erikson
Image
Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.
Steven Erikson
Image
A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day I’ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder
Steven Erikson