B.W. Melvin > Quotes

“I began to float upwards toward the ceiling. … I saw a fingerprint pressed under the inside fold of overlapping ceiling texture. You could never have seen it unless you stood on a ladder and knew where to look.”
― B.W. Melvin, A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion

“The part of the book I self-edited out shares how various people from other religions arrive and greeted by their religious figures, such as Buddha, or numerous Hindu gods, Krishna, pagan gods or goddesses, friends, family. These figures were not known to me until after I fully researched many years later on how each figure is depicted. I did see demonic beings give the illusion of these beings to those arriving.”
― B.W. Melvin

“I was to arrive at a certain destination for a short time, see what I would see, and walk amidst an unknown land best forgotten but not left unseen.”
― B.W. Melvin, A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion

“Don't neglect keeping life live / That ore Most High grants / Are you assured of your eternity?”
― B.W. Melvin, A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion

“What does it matter when the matter was decided to become a matter of fact?”
― B.W. Melvin, A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion

“It is appointed once for a man to die. When it is not that time, returning is an option decided.”
― B.W. Melvin, A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion

“I remember clearly being afraid to drift off into slumber, grabbing the doctor's lapels and asking with a parched throat if I was in a cube. He said, 'No, you're just experiencing fever-induced dementia.' I do not believe a form of fever-induced dementia caused what I experienced, but again, I will let the reader decide based on the merit of the message.”
― B.W. Melvin, A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion

“Come and see, it's been granted to thee.”
― B.W. Melvin, A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion

“I mean no disrespect to anybody for this, but I saw this guy of a particular faith. He thought he was in his paradise. And he saw this elephant deity inside of a cell, waiting for him. 'Oh—,' he said, whatever name it was. And he went inside. He thought he saw this purple being with all these arms. And then the elephant came up and stomped him and made mush out of him, and he would come back whole to repeat it. I think he was a priest of his particular religion. It wasn't a pleasant thing, because the reality of what they were doing and worshipping was coming back to bite them.”
― B.W. Melvin

“The cubes appeared encompassed by thin smoke-tinted, gelatin-like walls. Each cube appeared to be about ten feet by ten feet square. You could see into these but not out of them. Within every chamber resided an individual person, trapped, unable to escape as I had.”
― B.W. Melvin, A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion

“We came to another cube, and inside I saw a man standing within a one-room schoolhouse, writing on
chalkboard. He wrote endlessly, ‘I know it all, I know it all.’ He had once been a scholar, teaching wise
things. Through his lessons, he led many astray to walk away from God. Now he received his due, a
place without God and all alone.”
― B.W. Melvin, A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion

“Tell me, nurse, I'm not in a cube, am I? Are you really real? Where am I? Am I breathing? Nurse, tell me, THIS IS NOT A CUBE, is it?”
― B.W. Melvin, A Land Unknown: Hell's Dominion