“He hadn’t been religious. He’d believed that death was it. When you died you were dead, like a squished bug or drowned rat, and your immortality was in the minds of those you left behind.”

—  Glen Cook, Dreams of Steel

Source: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 11 (p. 264)

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