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

If not for a dumb beast's incomprehension at its own destruction beneaththe loving hands of two heartbroken children.

Eventually every man reaches a point where every memory is unwelcome

the siren song/called silence

Words were numbers were codes were formulae. Words held secret maps, the measuring of paces, the patterns of mortal minds, of histories, of cities, of continents and warrens.

We die unconsciously, we are born unconsciously and we live unconsciously as well

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

The Russian leaders are keen judges of human psychology, and as such they are highly conscious that loss of temper and of self-control is never a source of strength in political affairs.

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Nothing escapes the vigilance of the New South Wales police; their reputation is known the world over.

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is born.