“De Soya blinks. “Suicide is a mortal sin,” he says.
On the screen the girl nods seriously. “Yes,” she says, “but I am not a Christian. Also, I'd rather go to hell than go with you.””

— Dan Simmons , book Endymion

Source: Endymion (1996), Chapter 24 (p. 184)

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