" People will grieve. For the dead, for the living For the loss of innocence and for the surrender of innocence, which are two entirely different things. We will grieve, for choices made and not made, for the mistakes of the heart which can never be undone, for the severed nerve-endings of old scars and those to come. "

― Steven Erikson , Toll the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8)