Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable
Gardens of the Moon: Book One of The Malazan Book of the Fallen (ed. Macmillan, 2004) - ISBN: 9781429926584