A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

“Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Noth…”

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”

“You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up …”

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do …”