It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.

People are bound to get excited when they see a ten-million-ton starship trying to fly down the street.

Things have no power that humans don't put there.

Tʜᴇʀᴇ's ɴᴏ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴍᴇ. —Death

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.