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Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2) QUOTES

Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2) QUOTES

1 " 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 , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

2 " If not for a dumb beast's incomprehension at its own destruction beneath
the loving hands of two heartbroken children. "

― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

3 " Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome "

― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

4 " the siren song/called silence "

― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

5 " 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 , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

6 " 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 , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

7 " 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 , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

8 " What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think. "

― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

9 " 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 , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

10 " 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 , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

11 " 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 , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

12 " Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living. "

― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

13 " We are not simple creatures. You dream that with memories will come knowledge, and from knowledge, understanding. But for every answer you find, a thousand new questions arise. All that we are has lead us to where we are, but tells us little of where we're going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off. "

― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

14 " Нашите историк, вече свидетел, наврян в илюзията, че ще оцелее. Достатъчно дълго, за да изреди подробностите върху пергамент с крехката вяра, че истината е достойна кауза. Че разказът ще се превърне в урок, в който ще се вслушат. Крехка вяра ли? Откровена лъжа, заблуда от най-лош вид. Урокът на историята е в това, че никой не се учи. "

― Стивън Ериксън, , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

15 " Ride or die "

― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

16 " We are all naught but twists of suffering in a river of pain. "

― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

17 " Children are dying."
Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words. "

― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

18 " The lesson of history is that no one learns. "

― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

19 " [T]he unnamed soldier is a gift. The named soldier--dead, melted wax--demands a response among the living...a response no-one can make. Names are no comfort, they're a call to answer the unanswerable. Why did she die, not him? Why do the survivors remain anonymous--as if cursed--while the dead are revered? Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold?

Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living. "

― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)

20 " Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself. "

― Steven Erikson , Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)