Kushiel's Justice - Jacqueline Carey - Chapitre 52

"Still, I thought, change is not always bad. Of a surety, Terre d'Ange had changed when Elua and his Companions made it their home. In a few short generations' time, they had set their stamp on us, permanently and irrevocably. On our hearts, our minds, in our very blood, we were D'Angeline.
[...] Blessed Elua cared naught for thrones or crowns. Those were mortals ambitions. Nor did he care for glory or power or the fulfillment of mysterious prophecies with which life was filled. I understood that in a way I never had before."