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.

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

Focus your energy on the fragrance and beauty of the petals not on the thorns.

Artists, who are selfish people, become anxious around the self-sacrificing

If you aren't good at loving yourself you will have a difficult time loving anyone since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.

School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

Riding a bike works your legs but not your brain. Playing chess works your mind but not your body. Climbing brings it all together.

Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.

Tiger, come on now, you've still got work to do. This round and golf tournament are not over. Hang in there and finish the race.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.