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I have been reading The Malazan Book of the Fallen for about 3 years now, it’s 20 books or so, I’m not gonna go count. It’s quite a long story, epic doesn’t begin to describe it, suffice to say. But that’s not why I’m here.

There are two authors that write in the world. The more prolific of the two, Erikson, and author of the “main series” is very focused on compassion as a theme throughout that series. Wanted to share a quote from his work.

“We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance.”

Steve Erikson, “Memories of Ice”

“We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned. …Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance.”

Steven Erikson, “Memories of Ice”, Malazan Book of the Fallen

This edit made me sad for her and happy too as she saved another kid from going through the same trauma 😭