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“Pascals's Wager said that you could choose to believe in God or not, but if you bet wrong on God and didn't live as though as he existed, you were missing out on the infinite wonder of Heaven.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“The night sky shouldn't be so dark, If the Universe is endless, then starlight should fill all the empty spaces. Light doesn't stop until it hits a surface - so why the dark spaces? From where we stand on Earth, all we should see is light."
"Maybe the universe isn't limitless, then," Alice had said.
"Or the universe is expanding, And the stars are too young, and all that distant light is still stretching to reach us. And until it does the night lies dark.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Schau uns an, wir sind jung. Wir haben so viele Möglichkeiten, aber keine fühlt sich richtig an. Alles ist kaputt und zerfahren und kompliziert. Was ist das für eine scheiß Welt?”
― Mareike Fallwickl, Und alle so still

“You know how some parents, when their kid is cranky, or messing around when it's time to go somewhere - you know how some parents say okay, then, I'm leaving without you! Bye! And they leave the playground, or whereever? They maybe even go a ways down the street until their kid comes crying and running behind them, begging not to be abandoned, promising to be good. My mom was that mom.

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But there are other parents who would never do that to a kid. They would scold the kid, maybe, or coax the kid, or pick the kid up, or even get mad, but they wouldn't threaten to leave a little person they're responsible for.”
― E. Lockhart, We Fell Apart