Ozymandias

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― Ken Farmer, Artisan of Rome: A Tale of the Ancient Republic

“She may well have whispered, ‘I’ll miss you,’ once I’d gone, but I couldn’t hear that from where I was, and as this is first-person narration and therefore not omniscient, we just won’t know.”
― Garth Marenghi, TerrorTome

“The very same. But she never returned. Dwayne waited and waited, but always heard nothing. Eventually, he set off to see where she’d got to, knocked on Strain’s door . . . then he disappeared, too.’

‘What, right there at the door, like David Copperfield?’

‘No, no, he went in. Presumably then something happened to him inside the house, which stopped him coming out again alive, because he was never seen again. It wasn’t a magic trick, or anything like that.’

‘I see. So, almost as if he was murdered, then?’

‘Exactly,’ said Capello, fresh tears starting to flow.”
― Garth Marenghi, TerrorTome

“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
― Terry Pratchett