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SOME DAYS YOU are Godzilla. Other days you are Tokyo.
'Every time you tell a lie an angel punches a unicorn in the face with a kitten.'
At one point he was pretty sure he was having a meeting about a meeting he was going to have later in the day. Dave reckoned that he could recreate his work day by slamming his head in a door while someone poured cold coffee over him and repeatedly shouted, 'Synergies!'.
'Humanity. I love you all, but you've really got to stop being wankers to each other. When will you learn? Whatever your gender, race, religion or sexual orientation, you're all as insignificant as each other.
'But people need something to cling to. Some order. Some reason.' 'Yes, everything happens for a reason,' Death said, 'but sometimes the reason is that life is cold, random and awful. Like telephone banking.
Screw this. I can manipulate time and space. If anyone needs me, I'll be at Friday.
'You are an idiot wrapped in a moron inside another idiot.
Gary put a finger to his lips. 'Shhh. Can you hear that? It's Monday morning. If we keep still and stop talking, maybe it will pass us by.'
Aliens are real, Anne. They show up every few years in their mothership, look down on humanity, go "Nah, they're still dicks" and bugger off again.
'You tell yourselves that if there's pure evil in the world, then there must be pure good. You put your faith in absolutes. Good and evil. Heaven or hell. Blur or Oasis. You're so sure of the universe and your place in it and who put you there. I speak from personal experience when I say it's a lot more complicated than that. Take wasps, for example. Wasps are made entirely from bastard. Whose grand design are they part of?'
The tragedy of life is that everything dies. The blessing of it is that nobody knows when.
'The guy is an idiot wrapped in a moron inside another idiot.
'It doesn't matter what you believe in, Miss Watkins,' Nick said. 'Things are what they are, even if they are beyond the realms of your understanding.'
'Hello Death. How have you been?' Conquest replied. 'I can't complain. Nobody listens.
