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"An alternative, favored by those of a religious persuasion, was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis."

-Terry Pratchett's The Color of Magic

"As she watches him have this faith and believe in it, the world around him starts to change. And it starts to change for the better. So she starts to change, because she thinks maybe this IS the Way."