I will not argue with you a moment more, said Adel. I am tired of the past, and there is so much to do in the present. - J. M. McDermott

She shivered and turned away. These things I have seen in my life, she said. Someday a gentle God will grant me ignorance.
Do you worship gods? I said, still watching the golem burn.
Not lately, said Korinyes.

He got in loud fights with Baba all the time. I don’t remember words. Words are never important in arguments, only how loud we shout them.

You will never understand freedom. You and your son will never understand true freedom. You think freedom is the throne of the world, where no one can alter your words, and no one can tell you what to do, and men live or die by the slight twitch of your eyebrow. That isn’t freedom. That is a life of fear.