All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed. Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet. When you're young smelling of pigshit and convinced there ain't a weapon in all the damn world that's going to hurt you, all stories do is make you want to be part of them.
Gardens Of The Moon: (Malazan Book Of The Fallen 1) (ed. Random House, 2009) - ISBN: 9781409083108