" Even up until these final eons of time, we felt we could create anything.

We could build ourselves a heaven.

But why?

We were Heaven already.

Only in the very end did we try to build a S.O.U.L.

That which would outlast V.E.M., outlast The Verse, outlast death.

But it was impossible.

Or we were too late.

Though still the H.O.L.Y. tried.

And built Hell instead. "

― Mark Z. Danielewski , Honeysuckle & Pain (The Familiar #3)