“Gods are not kind. They have never been kind, and they never will be. Humanity would do well to remember that.” HumanityImmortalityGodsKiranSuri Book:The Heartless Divine Source: The Heartless Divine
“In the shadowed corridor, he looked incandescent and young. All the right components of a boy slotted into all the right places, but not quite a boy. Build A Boy’s singular business failure, she thought hysterically, and then rubbed at her eyes until the smile passed.” HumanityKiranSuri Book:The Heartless Divine Source: The Heartless Divine
“So this is the power of a god, she had thought, a little unsteady, a little fearful. If that was him fully bound—if even a slight release in the sankhili meant he burned like the sun—then she could not fathom what he would be like once unbound. If you lock away a god’s power, she thought, do they become human?” HumansHumanityPowerGodsKiranSuri Book:The Heartless Divine Source: The Heartless Divine
“But he was still human; even if the flames wrapped him in their warmth and kept him awake, he weakened as any other mortal weakened when kept from sleep. And, eventually, he grew weak enough that the darkness grew closer and closer, and the quiet of the city stole into his blood and silenced it entirely.” LifeHumanityDarknessKiran Book:The Heartless Divine Source: The Heartless Divine