Talia

“And Yarvi realized that Death does not bow to each person who passes her, does not sweep out her arm respectfully to show the way, speaks no profound words, unlocks no bolts. The key upon her chest is never needed, for the Last Door stands always open. She herds the dead through impatiently, needles of rank or fame or quality. She has an ever-lengthening queue to get through. A blind procession, inexhaustible.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Half a King

“wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”
― John Irving

“The game is afoot.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Adventure of the Abbey Grange - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.”
― Brian Cox