"Love like theirs will always find a way. It’ll crawl all up over you and drain your body fluids, poisoning you slowly until you pass out."
— Jake - Adventure time
"You’ve got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you’re not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together."
— Alan Moore
"Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity."
— The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - Milan Kundera
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Prologue:
Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already happen to know the awful secret behind the universe feel free to skip ahead.
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John Dies @ the End - David Wong
First chapter first paragraph excellent, no?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dies_at_the_End