Down In The Deepest Kingdoms Of The Sea, Where There Is No Light, There Lives A Type Of Creature With

Down in the deepest kingdoms of the sea, where there is no light, there lives a type of creature with no brain and no eyes and no mouth. It does nothing but live and put forth petals of perfect crimson where none are there to see. It is nothing except a tiny "yes" in the night. And yet... and yet... it has enemies that bear on it a vicious, unbending malice, who wish not only for its tiny life to be over, but also that it never existed. [...] Now, imagine what they think of humanity.

-Death on the Auditors of Reality, Hogfather; Terry Pratchett

I can’t tell if she’s actually real, or if she’s stopped caring if she’s real or not. Or is it not caring what makes a person real?

A Visit from the Goon Squad; Jennifer Egan

Unfortunately, we quickly forget the lessons we learn, and then we have to learn them all over again.

Jet Black, Cowboy Bebop

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency; Douglas Adams

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

The Hollow Men; T.S. Eliot

You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

Eames; Inception