“Hell […] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.”
Glen Duncan book I, Lucifer
Source: I, Lucifer
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
— Emily St. John Mandel, book Station Eleven
Source: Station Eleven (2014), Chapter 23 (p. 144)
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