Steven Erikson
Steven Erikson
Steven Eriksonis the pseudonym of Steve Rune Lundin, a Canadian novelist, who was educated and trained as both an archaeologist and anthropologist...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 October 1959
CountryCanada
flower butterfly wind
And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.
jobs men flames
Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it...
thinking sides tools
Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?' The Imass shrugged before replying. 'I think of futility, Adjunct.' 'Do all Imass think about futility?' 'No. Few think at all.' 'Why is that?' The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her. 'Because Adjunct, it is futile.
confusion secret crumbling
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.
games iron envy
The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They disguise nothing in trappings, and so we all see what we'd rather not, that power is cruel, hard as iron and bone, and thrives on destruction. ~ Deadhouse Gates
cities fruit seven
I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them.
regret lying one-day
One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.
humility soul pay
We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558
desire justified virtue
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.
pain stranger said
It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.
cobwebs moments finest
Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.
men what-matters necks
What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?
firsts lasts motto
First in , Last out. Motto of the bridgeburners
genius vastness
Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.