If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.

In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me," I said. "I want to be myself." "Don't be a child." I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. "What?" "You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I'm tired of your whining.

Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.

We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.