If need be, the round man can prove a most blunt barrier. Just ask the man with the hammer. - Steven Erikson

"Children are dying."
Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words."

Burdens were born from the loss of innocence. Naïveté. While the innocent yearned to lose their innocence, those who had already done so in turn envied the innocent, and knew grief in what they had lost. Between the two, no exchange of truths was possible

Very well, permit me, if you will, on this night. To break your hearts once more.