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Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3) QUOTES

Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3) QUOTES

1 " 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, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

2 " In my dreams I come face to face
with myriad reflections of myself,
all unknown and passing strange.
They speak unending
in languages not my own
and walk with companions
I have never met, in places
my steps have never gone.

In my dreams I walk worlds
where forests crowd my knees
and half the sky is walled ice.
Dun herds flow like mud,
vast floods tusked and horned
surging over the plain,
and lo, they are my memories,
the migrations of my soul. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

3 " Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it... "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

4 " All right, shadow-priest, you've been spying — on what? What state secrets have you learned watching me groom these horses?'

'Only that they hate you, Daru. Every time your back was turned, they got ready to nip you — only you always seemed to step away at precisely the right moment-'

'Yes, I did, since I knew what they were intending. Each time.'

'Is this pride I hear? That you outwitted two horses? "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

5 " I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

6 " A rough, broken voice replied. 'There is value.'
Everyone fell silent, turned to Duiker.
The old man looked down once more at the cloth in his hands.
The silence stretched.
Duiker made no move.
Picker began to turn back to her companions — when the man began speaking. 'Very well, permit me, if you will, on this night. To break your hearts once more. This is the story of the Chain of Dogs. Of Coltaine of the Crow Clan, newly come Fist to the 7th Army... "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

7 " A pointless, senseless death.’

‘They’re all pointless and senseless, friend. Until the living carve meaning out of them. What are you going to carve, Gruntle, out of Harllo’s death? Take my advice, an empty cave offers no comfort.’

‘I ain’t looking for comfort.’

‘You’d better. No other goal is worthwhile, and I should know. Harllo was my friend as well. From the way those Grey Swords who found us described it, you were down, and he did what a friend’s supposed to do – he defended you. Stood over you and took the blows. And was killed. But he did what he wanted – he saved your hide. And is this his reward, Gruntle? You want to look his ghost in the eye and tell him it wasn’t worth it?’

‘He should never have done it.’

‘That’s not the point, is it? "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

8 " Kallor shrugged. '[...] I have walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?'

'Yes,' [said Caladan Brood.] 'You never learn. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

9 " The harder the world, the fiercer the honour. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

10 " There is, all about us, ancient knowledge - that cannot be denied. Yet Kruppe wonders, are there memories? True memories? Of enlivened flesh and the wind's caress, of the laughter of children? Memories of love?
When frozen between life and death, in the glacial in-between, what can exist of mortal feeling? Not even an echo. Only memories of ice, of ice and no more than that. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

11 " Brood, you and I, we have fought the Malazans as liberators in truth. Asking no coin, no land. Our motives aren't even clear to us – imagine how they must seem to the Empress? Inexplicable. We appear to be bound to lofty ideals, to nearly outrageous notions of self-sacrifice. We are her enemy, and I don't think she even knows why. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

12 " First in , Last out.


Motto of the bridgeburners "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

13 " The heart of wisdom is tolerance. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

14 " 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 , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

15 " War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

16 " I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so very briefly, was of far vaster and deeper import than it truly was. Of all the weapons we chose to turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

17 " Very well, permit me, if you will, on this night. To break your hearts once more. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

18 " And perhaps that is the final, most devastating truth. The gods care nothing for ascetic impositions on mortal behaviour. Care nothing for rules of conduct, for the twisted morals of temple priests and monks. Perhaps indeed they laugh at the chains we wrap around ourselves – our endless, insatiable need to find flaws within the demands of life. Or perhaps they do not laugh, but rage at us. Perhaps our denial of life’s celebration is our greatest insult to those whom we worship and serve. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

19 " Hello, Capustan. The Bridgeburners have arrived. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)

20 " 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. T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance. "

― Steven Erikson , Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3)