“ You live in a grim universe.”“That’s risk management for you. ”
Teo had once claimed that human history began with a storm: the interval between lightning and thunder, between flash and rumble felt in the body's core, was primitive man's first experiences of time -- the awakening of consciousness, the birth of the gods.
~ Max Gladstone
Faith is a state of constant examination and openness. In faith we must be vulnerable. Only in this seeming weakness do we live with God.
Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing.
They found the Infirmary of Justice much as they had left it: white institutional walls, too-bright floors, and a reassuring smell of antiseptic. Reassuring at least to Tara, because the smell signalled that the people running this infirmary knew about antiseptic.
