It Devours! (Welcome to Night Vale, #2)

by Joseph Fink

(“The sky once loved a certain rock. But millennia of erosion transformed the rock to dust. The sky, not understanding, still signals for its friend who abandoned it. The rock never knew about the sky. The rock only loved the wind that was slowly eroding it.”)

Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.

Nilanjana was from Indiana originally, where computers were legal. No government agency put any kind of restriction on what sorts of computers you had, or how many. That was left to the giant corporations who controlled the availability of information, helpfully colluding to fix prices for consumers, and thus keeping information freely available to those who could afford it.

six bathroom doors (Men, Women, No, Unsure, Angels, and This Too Too Solid Flesh).

“Big Rico was all about secrets. Tons of secrets, most of them useless. Most of them misdirection to keep people from noticing the biggest secret of all, himself. His own body, his culture, his personality, those were his real secrets, and so he created a cloud of conspiracies around him to distract from what people were staring literally in the face.”

unsure of how to express his emotions, since he usually only did so in carefully worded sentences, not with water from his body.

Our god is dead, but lots of gods are dead. It doesn’t make them . . . you know, less.

Religion can be something you do, not something you believe. And that can have just as much meaning.”