Once The Game Is Over, The King And The Pawn Go Back In The Same Box.

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

Italian Proverb

There's a downstairs in everybody. That's where we live.

The Three Fates, The Sandman : The Kindly Ones Neil Gaiman

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Todd Faber; The Sandman: Fables and Reflections Neil Gaiman

Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks round, the whole board could've been a republic in a dozen moves.

Thud!; Terry Pratchett

The gods we prayed to when we were young used up their time so long ago. They cannot answer anymore.

The Sandman: The Kindly Ones Neil Gaiman

"They never liked us, did they?" "Gods don't 'like'. They love and they hate and they ignore ... "

The Sandman: The Kindly Ones Neil Gaiman