B.E. Scully > Quotes

“This is not written for the young or the light of heart, not for the tranquil species of men whose souls are content with the simple pleasures of family, church, or profession. Rather, I write to those beings like myself whose existence is compounded by a lurid intermingling of the dark and the
light; who can judge rationally and think with reason, yet who feel too keenly and churn with too great a passion; who have an incessant longing for happiness and yet are
shadowed by a deep and persistent melancholy—those who grasp gratification where they may, but find no lasting comfort for the soul.”
― B.E. Scully

“Our very existence refuses your laws and
your science, your religions and your
philosophies.”
― B.E. Scully

“remember that even though the dream may be an illusion, the dreaming is always real.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“I asked why this had impressed him so much, and he said, “You see, those stubborn, long-obscured images are like the layers of our own existence; we are the painters covering them over and over again, but that which appears lost is merely hidden. The old images bide their time and then rise to the surface to join with the new ones. Don’t you see? Pentimento, Verland, transforms the perception of loss into the promise of reconfiguration.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Everybody stood dead still. It was as if now that we were about to get out of the Tower for the first time since the flood, we were scared, like we were crossing some line that we wouldn’t be able to uncross.

--Greenleigh”
― B.E. Scully, The Tower of Together

“But death is not meant to be a lover, Elle. (...) And too great a hunger for what has been or what is yet to be quickly becomes starvation.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Because you have looked into the darkness and seen the flame that burns there, the light that is part of darkness itself. A man like Kingman wants to master the flame - wants to set the darkness ablaze and drive it away forever! But the flame cannot be mastered; it is meant to illuminate the darkness, not destroy it.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“I am going in search of what comes next. Nothing more and nothing less.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Some will believe; some always do. As for the rest - they don't have to believe in the story in order to believe in the idea, and the idea is what matters. That's the way it has always been - the history of mankind is the history of fictions made into truths, and truths made into fictions.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Death is not an obstacle to be gotten around; it is a part of the pathway itself.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Consider the fact that a belief in the immortality of the soul in some form or another is fundamental to every religion. And yet why, then, do most humans fear and despise death? Why do so many consider the universe so small, its energy so limited, that this one blip of time and space is all there is to it?”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Because there are things in that book that mankind should know of. You see, for many years, I believed that humans fear my kind because we can harm them. But then I considered that most anything in this world can do the same, including humans themselves. And I realized that people fear us most of all because we know death - know it so intimately that we have become it.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“a creature's sustenance being dependent upon another creature's death is not the end point of our evolution, just one more transition to be made. And as it has always been, each creature must either adapt or perish.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation