" The nurse cleared her throat and said, “Love is stronger than God.” Mort(e) turned to Sheba for a reaction. The dog merely sat on her hind legs, content. Was this the summation of all that the Queen had learned, or some desperate acknowledgement of the only things that her advanced intellect could never fully comprehend? The only one who knew now was a shivering, half-dead child who had never asked to be a part of this. “Is that true, you think?” the nurse asked. “We have to live like it is,” Mort(e) said. "

― Robert Repino , Mort(e) (War with No Name, #1)