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“Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness … The”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Strain

“Intolerance and superstition has always been the domain of the more stupid amongst the common folk and, I conjecture, will never be uprooted, for they are as eternal as stupidity itself. There, where mountains tower today, one day there will be seas; there where today seas surge, will one day be deserts. But stupidity will remain stupidity. Nicodemus”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Blood of Elves

“The world was going crazy. Nothing left to do but hold on and yell “Wheee!” at strategic moments.”
― Ilona Andrews, Magic Triumphs

“I say nothing less obvious than the nose on your face. Power structures that claim authority from things unseen are exploitative by definition, especially when such claims are enforced with fear of a conveniently unverifiable afterlife. Any student of history, anyone with half-a-day’s learning, will see this. Unless, of course, their position in said structure defines their worth.”
― David Wragg, The Righteous