" She kept talking, on and on about transcursion, giving me first the dictionary definition—a passage beyond limits; extraordinary deviation—and then her own, infinitely more twisted interpretation: a change effected so deep, so fundamental, that when you emerged on the other end (if there was an other end, she wasn’t sure and seemed content not to know; for now it was the trip that mattered) you would be yourself a process, an agent of the change, a branch office, say, of the Church of the Transcursion. "

― Kathe Koja , The Cipher