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The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen QUOTES

The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen QUOTES

41 " If the dead could speak, Clip, what would they tell you?’ ‘Little, I expect, beyond complaints about this and that.’ ‘Perhaps, then, that is all you deserve.’ ‘Oh, I lack honour, do I?’ ‘I am not sure what you lack,’ Silchas Ruin replied, ‘but I am certain I will comprehend before we are done. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

42 " A Hood-damned Seguleh. High ranked, too. We’d never have got our shots off – no way. Our heads would have rolled like a pair of oversized snowballs. ‘I looked away, Fid. I looked right down at the ground when she turned my way.’ ‘Me too.’ ‘And that’s why we’re still alive.’ ‘Aye. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

43 " We’re looking for grey-skinned murderers and they’re hiding in these trees. Behind them, I mean. If they were in them, it’d hurt. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

44 " The fleet of ships came later, under the command of three madmen – Crust, Urko and Nok – but first to step ashore was none other than Surly and you know who she’d become, don’t you? "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

45 " Master Bugg, as you know, I despise discombobulation.’ ‘Oh, I’m sorry to hear that.’ ‘You should be, since I charge by the word.’ ‘Both our words, or just yours?’ ‘It is a little late to ask that now, isn’t it?’ Sleem’s folded hands did something sinuous and vaguely disreputable. ‘You have instructed me, if I understand you correctly – and correct me if I am in error – you have instructed me, then, to approach your financier to request yet another loan with the stated intention to use it to pay a portion of the interest on the previous loan, which if I recall accurately, and I do, was intended to address in part the interest on yet another loan. This leads me to wonder, since I am not your only advocate, just how many loans you have arranged to pay interest on yet other loans?’ ‘Well, that was expensive. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

46 " am not the one to ask. Does the sun lift into the sky outside then collapse once more? Do bells sound to proclaim a control where none truly exists? 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 judgement over every decision made or not made? Do "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

47 " You could have just told him the truth. That Mael wanted him and wanted him badly. That we had to reach in and drag him out – he would have been far more thankful with all that.’ ‘Gratitude is a useless luxury in this instance, Shadowthrone. No distractions, remember? Nothing and no one to turn Traveller from his fated destiny. Leave Mael for another time. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

48 " Sometimes a mage would just up and hug him, then walk away. Once, a wizard he was talking to just started crying. That had frightened Beak. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

49 " Sunrise smiled to himself at hearing Sweetlard try out that Malazan way of talking. ‘Aye.’ It’s a good word, I think. More a whole attitude than a word, really. With lots of meaning in it, too. A bit of ‘yes’ and a bit of ‘well, fuck’ and maybe some ‘we’re all in this mess together’. So, a word to sum up the Malazans. He uttered his own sigh and settled his head back. ‘Aye,’ he said. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

50 " So much had changed inside him. He was no believer in causes, not any more. Certainty was an illusion, a lie. Fanaticism was poison in the soul, and the first victim in its inexorable, ever-growing list was compassion. Who could speak of freedom, when one’s own soul was bound in chains? "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

51 " Worship the sacrifice they will make, for they make it in the name of compassion—the only cause worth fighting and dying for. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

52 " It’s all right, Beak, to die alongside your comrades. It’s all right. Do you understand me?’ ‘Yes sir, I do. It is all right, because they’re my friends.’ ‘That’s right, Beak.’ And that’s why no-one needs to worry, Captain. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

53 " and is she sorry? By Apsalar she is not! "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

54 " Mother Dark had turned away. She had left them to fates of their own devising, and in so doing, she had taken away their privilege of blaming someone else. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

55 " Pure genius. Why didn’t I think of that?’ The tone began rising once more. ‘Why? Because I’m not an idiot!! "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

56 " masters at corrupting words, their meanings. They call war peace, they call tyranny liberty. On which side of the shadow you stand decides a word’s meaning. Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

57 " His old name was on the toll of the fallen, after all, and beside it was Blackdog Wood, 1159 Burn’s Sleep. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

58 " Here be the mountains vanishing in the mists, never to return. Here be the rivers sinking into the sands, and these are the sands that never rest. And the sky that looks down and sees nothing. Here, aye, is the world behind me, for I was never much of a map-maker, never much the surveyor of deeds. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

59 " You have ever been my favourite,’ he said, looking away. ‘Your favourite what?’ ‘High Priestess, of course. What else might I be thinking?’ ‘Well, that is the eternal question, isn’t it?’ ‘One too many people spend too much time worrying about.’ ‘You cannot be serious, Anomander. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen

60 " Truths, yes. One after another, one boulder settling down, then another. And another. Blotting out the light, darkness closing in, grit and sand sifting down, a solid silence when the last one is in place. Now, dear fool, try drawing a single breath. A single breath.

There were clouds closed fast round the moon. And one by one, gardens died. "

― Steven Erikson , The Complete Malazan Book of the Fallen