Casey Spencer

“-and my point is, there's always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we're living at the climax of the story. It's a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we're uniquely important, that we're living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst it's ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.

Pages 189”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“I watched the silvery light flicker around the petals.
"What does it do?"
"Do?" Calypso mused. "It doesn't so anything, I suppose. It lives, it gives light, it provides beauty. Does it have to do anything else?"

'I suppose not." I said.

Percy to Calypso”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

“10th October 1877
I am in love! Her name is Drusilla MacAvoy.

15th October 1877
Too hasty by far! The MacAvoy woman was not for me. I am planning to kill myself, and if the remainder of these pages are blank anyone who comes across this diary will know I succeeded.

Rupert Angier (Pg. 166)”
― Christopher Priest, The Prestige

“Mr.Owens had an expression for two things he found equally unpleasant: "I'm between the devil and the deep blue sea," he would say. Bod had wondered what this meant, having seen, in his life in the graveyard, neither the devil nor the deep blue sea. I'm between the ghouls and the monster.

Page 91”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book