Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.
Time renders all people and all things silent. And gods, it seems, are no exception.
Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn.
The political instinct might wear different clothes in different nations, but underneath the pomp and ceremony it's the same ugliness.
Sigrud is a hammer in a world of nails, and he is satisfied knowing only that.
Coffee refreshes the body,” says Shara. “Tea refreshes the soul.
The sort of people who intermittently review their children, she thinks, rather than raise them
And Olvos said to them: “Why have you done this, my children? Why is the sky wreathed with smoke? Why have you made war in far places, and shed blood in strange lands?And they said to Her: “You blessed us as Your people, and we rejoiced, and were happy. But we found those who were not Your people, and they would not become Your people, and they were willful and ignorant of You. They would not open their ears to Your songs, or lay Your words upon their tongues. So we dashed them upon the rocks and threw down their houses and shed their blood and scattered them to the winds, and we were right to do so. For we are Your people. We carry Your blessings. We are Yours, and so we are right. Is this not what You said?”And Olvos was silent.
– Люди – такие странные существа, Шара Комайд… Они ценят наказание, потому что видят в нем признание важности своих действий – а значит, собственной важности. В конце концов – смысл наказывать за то, что не имеет никакого значения? Посмотри на колкастани: они реально считают, что мир существует единственно для того, чтобы вгонять их в краску, унижать, наказывать и испытывать! Все создано только ради них, родимых! Мир полон гадостей и боли, но все это исключительно ради того, чтобы они страдали! Так что Колкан всего лишь дал им то, чего они хотели.