Verland Quotes

“remember that even though the dream may be an illusion, the dreaming is always real.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“I asked why this had impressed him so much, and he said, “You see, those stubborn, long-obscured images are like the layers of our own existence; we are the painters covering them over and over again, but that which appears lost is merely hidden. The old images bide their time and then rise to the surface to join with the new ones. Don’t you see? Pentimento, Verland, transforms the perception of loss into the promise of reconfiguration.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“a creature's sustenance being dependent upon another creature's death is not the end point of our evolution, just one more transition to be made. And as it has always been, each creature must either adapt or perish.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Consider the fact that a belief in the immortality of the soul in some form or another is fundamental to every religion. And yet why, then, do most humans fear and despise death? Why do so many consider the universe so small, its energy so limited, that this one blip of time and space is all there is to it?”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“I am going in search of what comes next. Nothing more and nothing less.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Some will believe; some always do. As for the rest - they don't have to believe in the story in order to believe in the idea, and the idea is what matters. That's the way it has always been - the history of mankind is the history of fictions made into truths, and truths made into fictions.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Because you have looked into the darkness and seen the flame that burns there, the light that is part of darkness itself. A man like Kingman wants to master the flame - wants to set the darkness ablaze and drive it away forever! But the flame cannot be mastered; it is meant to illuminate the darkness, not destroy it.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“But death is not meant to be a lover, Elle. (...) And too great a hunger for what has been or what is yet to be quickly becomes starvation.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Death is not an obstacle to be gotten around; it is a part of the pathway itself.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation

“Because there are things in that book that mankind should know of. You see, for many years, I believed that humans fear my kind because we can harm them. But then I considered that most anything in this world can do the same, including humans themselves. And I realized that people fear us most of all because we know death - know it so intimately that we have become it.”
― B.E. Scully, Verland: The Transformation