One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.
Steven EriksonAll that we were has led us to where we are, but tells us little of where we’re going. Memories are a weight you can never shrug off.
Steven EriksonYou are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.
Steven EriksonBelieve it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.
Steven EriksonI 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