Book: Damn. Page 1

No one mourns at a funeral like the dead themselves.

Life seems like hell to us if we hope to live forever. Life is short. And there is no point in getting upset.

As unpleasant as death may seem, the upside is that it only happens once. And then no more painful experiences.

"Alien mouth - darkness." I mean, they can tell you anything, so get all deals in writing. That is, leave a paper trail behind you.

Hell breaks people - allows them to go to greater and greater extremes, to turn into evil caricatures of themselves, until they finally realize their mistake.

Actually, death makes you feel better. Take me, I want to say: I'm only thirteen, and death is almost the best thing that has ever happened to me.

Reading almost all books is absolutely the same as being a corpse. It's all so... complete.

The main thing is not to go towards heart attacks. In a sense, you need to save energy and remember to relax. No job lasts forever, so relax and enjoy.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

It turns out that fundamentalists, creationists, and other Christians were right. Oh, how I wish I could tell my parents: Kansas was right. Yes, these snake-holders and Pentecostals, sectarians degenerated from closely related marriages, turned out to be cooler than my mom and dad - billionaires and secular humanists. The dark forces of evil have indeed scattered dinosaur bones everywhere and forged excavation reports to mislead humanity. Evolution is complete nonsense, in which we unconditionally believed.

Hell is the place where desires take you away from God. It is these desires that do not allow the Divine plan of the perfection of your soul to come true.

For almost all of human history, Leonard says, people have imagined hell as something like a hospital where we go to get rid of the habit of life.

Dying is worse than failing an exam, than getting into the police, than having a kid at prom. We screwed up big time and there's nothing to fix.

Now that they're dead, don't they feel like they've disappointed everyone who once loved them? So many people worked hard to raise them, feed them and educate them - and now Archer, Leonard or Babette are not at all upset that they let their loved ones down? Don't they think that death is the worst sin they could commit? Do they not suspect that our death caused the living such pain that will not pass until the end of life?