He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

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

Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne.

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.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

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