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“Consider the fact that a belief in the immortality of the soul in some form or another is fundamental to every religion. And yet why, then, do most humans fear and despise death? Why do so many consider the universe so small, its energy so limited, that this one blip of time and space is all there is to it?”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Some will believe; some always do. As for the rest - they don't have to believe in the story in order to believe in the idea, and the idea is what matters. That's the way it has always been - the history of mankind is the history of fictions made into truths, and truths made into fictions.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“However great the challenge, it’s easier to overcome with a decent meal inside you.”
― Walter Moers, The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear

“You broke into my house, fixed the doorbell and then went back outside and rang it?”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues