Nessa

“But what was the point of it all? Sister Agnes used to tell him that the purpose of life was to be all that you could be - with a side helping, of course, of helping others to do the same. And maybe the Long Earth was a place where, as Lobsang might put it, human potentially could be maximally expressed... Was there some sense in which that was what the Long Earth was for? To allow manking to make the most of itself?”
― Terry Pratchett

“YOU CAN'T DEPEND ON PEOPLE BECAUSE...
...they go away.
...strangers die.
...people you know fairly well die.
...friends die.
...people murder people, like in books.
...your own folks can die.

So...”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“There is no top or bottom, no absolute
positioning in space. There are only positions that are relative to the others.
There is an incessant change in the relative positions throughout the universe
and the observer is always at the centre".”
― Giordano Bruno

“We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are symbols of something, not of nothing. It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneath which men long ago veiled their knowledge of the most awful, most secret forces which lie at the heart of all things; forces before which the souls of men must wither and die and blacken, as their bodies blacken under the electric current. Such forces cannot be named, cannot be spoken, cannot be imagined except under a veil and a symbol, a symbol to the most of us appearing a quaint, poetic fancy, to some a foolish tale. But you and I, at all events, have known something of the terror that may dwell in the secret place of life, manifested under human flesh; that which is without form taking to itself a form.”
― Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan