It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain. - Steven Erikson

The gentler and kinder the god, the more harsh and cruel its worshippers, for they hold to their conviction with taut certainty, febrile in its extremity, and so cannot abide dissenters. They will kill, they will torture, in that god’s name. And see in themselves no conflict, no matter how bloodstained their hands.

I’m sure they were good men, the ones you lost.” “Good at dying,” he said.

You’re loitering, citizen.”
“Actually, I was hesitating.