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1 " And He was the one who invented marriage so that the blazing fire of romantic love could become something even more beautiful - a pulsing, red-hot ember of covenant love in marriage.Why did He do it? For the same reason that He made sunsets and mountain ranges and fireflies! Because He's good. Because He wants to give us a million different opportunities to see just how wonderful He is. "
― Joshua Harris , Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship
2 " It is well known that stone can think, because the whole of electronics is based on that fact, but in some universes men spend ages looking for other intelligences in the sky without once looking under their feet. That is because they've got the time-span all wrong. From stone's point of view the universe is hardly created and mountain ranges are bouncing up and down like organ-stops while continents zip backward and forward in general high spirits, crashing into each other from the sheer joy of momentum and getting their rocks off. It is going to be quite some time before stone notices its disfiguring skin disease and starts to scratch, which is just as well. "
― Terry Pratchett , Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)
3 " At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds. "
― David Mitchell , Cloud Atlas
