I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.

Shadows Linger: A Novel of the Black Company (ed. Macmillan, 1990) - ISBN: 9781466831100