Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.
Steven EriksonWe humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, Tโlan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.
Steven EriksonSurvivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.
Steven Erikson