Terry Pratchett's Hogfather
- Susan: All right, I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need ... fantasies to make life bearable.
- Death: NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEET THE RISING APE.
- Susan: Tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
- Death: YES. AS A PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
- Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
- Death: YES. JUSTICE. DUTY. MERCY. THAT SORT OF THING.
- Susan: They're not the same at all!
- Death: REALLY? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECUL OF MERCY. AND YET YOU ACT, LIKE THERE WAS SOME SORT OF RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
- Susan: Yes. But people have got to believe that or what's the point?
- Death: My point exactly.
So I just realised. A lot of people, when you say you have a friend on the internet, go “but you don’t know! They could be a middle aged man pretending to be an teenage girl!”
They dont know that most of these people are my RP partners.
And are teenage girls pretending to be middle aged men.
(via gaebul)
“But at the end of the day, the lie isn’t what matters, it’s what you do after you tell it. If you work hard enough, you can make it true.”
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