It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.
Steven EriksonThere is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.
Steven EriksonThe soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
Steven EriksonMore than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour encumbers, restricts the body and soul within it. But it also protects. Blows are blunted. Feelings lose their edge, leaving us to suffer naught but a plague of bruises, and, after a time, bruises fade.
Steven Erikson