Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

by David Eagleman

And God consoles Himself with the thought that all creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

He says, “It is not the brave who can handle the big face, it is the brave who can handle its absence.”

You could permanently blow the cover, but the Directors are confident that you won’t; they know you will sink to any depth of infidelity to preserve the lie for your eventual return to it.