I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.
Two children he had had, and he had not seen either clearly. But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.
Always in your in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you have been cheated of something that you had a right to.