Mark

“This episode was brought to you by a letter from Satan, a shitload of numbers, and the popular phrase, Overly Dramatic Fantasy Revenge Sequence.”
― Carlie Martece, Deragon Hex: The Vipdile Key

“How could the colonists starve in the midst of plenty? One reason was that the English feared leaving Jamestown to fish, because Powhatan’s fighters were waiting outside the colony walls. A second reason was that a startlingly large proportion of the colonists were gentlemen, a status defined by not having to perform manual labor.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“It’s an old pirate tradition. Burial at C.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Galactic North