Tanith Lee Quote

We are the sum of our achievements, nothing more and nothing less. The mountain road which led us here was built by a dead people none of us would remember otherwise. What we create is the only part of us which can survive, or has the right to. Man is nothing, except to other men.

Book Two, Part V Tower-Eshkorek, Chapter 3 (p. 303) - The Birthgrave (1975)