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

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.

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

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

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.