| “ | ...I build with my hands. I am a maker of monuments to lost causes. If you travel west of here, you will find my works. They adorn ruins and other forgotten places. They stand, as eternal as I could make them, to reveal the virtues to which every age aspires. They are lost now but will be rediscovered. In the days of a wounded, dying people, these monuments are raised again. And again. Not to worship, not to idolize – only the cynics find pleasure in that, to justify the suicide of their own faith. No, they raise them in hope. They raise them to plead for sanity. They raise them to fight against futility. | ” |
| — High Mason Caladan Brood, (Fall of Light, Steven Erikson) | ||
| “ | The innocent do nothing but die. | ” |
| — War-Bitch, (The God Is Not Willing, Steven Erikson) | ||