Liis

“If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable.” “Because you are not fit to go there,” I answered. “All sinners would be miserable in heaven.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Living too long is worst of all No one cares or comes to call.”
― Tomas O'Crohan, The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach: An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry

“YOU FEAR TO DIE? ‘It’s not that I don’t want … I mean, I’ve always … it’s just that life is a habit that’s hard to break …”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“This is our recurring temptation—to live within our camp’s caves, taking turns both as the shadow-puppeteers and the audience. We chant our camp’s mantras repeatedly so they continue reverberating in our skulls. When we stay entrenched within our belief-camps, we create the illusion of secure reality by reinforcing each other’s presuppositions and paradigms. We choose specific watering holes of information and evidence, and we influence each other in interpreting that data in accordance with the conclusions we desire. Our camps reinforce our existing cognitive biases, making cheating all the more common and easy.”
― Daniel Jones, Shadow Gods