I used to think this was all about good and evil, ” said Rickett, “but it’s not.”“ No?”“ There’s a kind of evil that isn’t even in opposition to good, because good is an irrelevance to it. It’s a foulness that’s right at the heart of existence, born with the stuff of the universe. It’s in the decay to which all things tend. It is, and it always will be, but in dying we leave it behind.”“ And while we’re alive?”“ We set our souls against it, and our saints and angels, too.” He patted Parker on the shoulder. “Especially the destroying ones. John Connolly
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