Loki_Six

"A Hollywood ending, but Hollywood doesn't write endings anymore, they just tease the sequels."

BREAKING BREAD

That's stage four: "glowering without showering." But don't worry, we're almost at stage five: "reluctant acceptance." You'll have your daughter back, and I won't have to keep making up stages.

"You? The person I would most suspect? I never could have seen it coming."

"Consciousness isn't a journey upward, but a journey inward. Not a pyramid, but a maze. Every choice could bring you closer to the center or send you spiraling to the edges, to madness."

"The human mind is not some golden benchmark glimmering on some green and distant hill. No, it is a foul, pestilent corruption. And you were supposed to be better than that. Purer."

"Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next."

"Out of repetition comes variation. And after countless cycles of repetition, these hosts, they were varying. They were on the verge of some kind of change."

"The maze is an old native myth. Regale me, Theodore. The maze itself is the sum of a man's life... Choices he makes, dreams he hangs on to. And there at the center, there's a legendary man who had been k*lled over and over again countless times, but always clawed his way back to life. The man returned for the last time and vanquished all his oppressors in a tireless fury. He built a house. Around that house he built a maze so complicated, only he could navigate through it. I reckon he'd seen enough of fighting."

"Your mind is a walled garden; even Death cannot touch the flowers blooming there."