Держава богов

-Помощь необязательно должна иметь вещественное выражение,Шахар,-сказал я.

Take a nautilus shell; cut it cross section. Gently elevate its swirling, chambered tiers as they approach the tight-bound center, culminating at last in a pinnacle on which we all stood. Note its asymmetrical order, its chaotic repetition, the grace of its linkages. Contemplate the ephemerality of its existence. Such is the beauty that is mortal life.

I am not and my body was too old to provide me with a child’s defenses against reality. Children do not think about how magnificent it would be to become one with another person. They do not yearn to lose themselves in force and sensation and panting. Children think about consequences, if only to try and avoid them. It takes an adult to abandon such thoughts entirely.

Трудно придумать существо опаснее чем скучающий ребенок.

«Дитя, еще сидевшее в ней, рвалось поступать по своему хотению и цеплялось за несбыточные надежды. Женщина в ней стремилась принимать обоснованные решения и преуспевать, даже если ради этого пришлось бы идти на жертвы»

Время всех раздражает, но оно же членит сущее и задает ему ритм.

Счастье-великая целительная сила.

“Quiet, serenity, the comfort of routine … these things are my nature, after all.” He paused, his expression hardening in warning. “As is stubbornness.”

With what remained of Us, We (I) remembered belatedly that We were in a flying palace that had been built as a floating palace, and either way it would not do well as a falling palace.

I suspected that if Wrath got through this day with his position intact, he would soon put his soldiers through a heavy training course on Gods, the Quick Recognition and Not Attacking Of.