““It would take an entire nation a thousand years to build something this vast. No monument so huge can be a good thing.”
“I don’t understand.”
“Only a very great evil could remain so single of purpose, so uncaring of cost, as to create something so ultimately useless.””

—  Glen Cook, book She Is the Darkness

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 103 (p. 650)

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