# Quote — Neil Gaiman, Smoke and Mirrors

> “‘He should not have been destroyed like that. That was wrong.’
>
> “‘It was His will.’
>
> “Lucifer stood. ‘Then perhaps His will is unjust. Perhaps the voices in the Darkness speak truly, after all. How can this be right?’
>
> “‘It is right. It is His will. I merely performed my function.’
>
> “He wiped away the tears with the back of his hand. ‘No,’ he said flatly.”

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Book: [Smoke and Mirrors](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/smoke-and-mirrors.md)
- Page: 325
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman#Smoke_and_Mirrors_(1998)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/smoke-and-mirrors/he-should-not

## More from this book

> This is the kind of thing you wonder about when you make up things for a living.

p. 2 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/smoke-and-mirrors/this-is-the.md)

> Even the better protected files corrupt,
>
> and the best protected corrupt absolutely.

p. 239 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/smoke-and-mirrors/even-the-better.md)

> And our latest project was Death. It's one of the hard ones—one of the big ones, too, I suspect. Possibly it may even become the attribute that's going to define the Creation for the Created: If not for Death, they'd be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning—a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross...

p. 312 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/smoke-and-mirrors/and-our-latest.md)