Religion. Science. Politics. Our relationships. Our identities. They're all stories.
Stories that hold our place in the world. Hell, that become our world.
- The Unwritten #45
by Mike Carey and Peter Gross
But in the end--
--without story... without the ability to step sideways from fact into hypothesis--
--human life is untenable.
Hellboy: What are they?
Demon: Misspent lives. Not the great monsters, but the common damned.
Hellboy: And who decides who's damned?
Demon: Each man's soul is his own. How he chooses to spend it...
That is for each man to decide for himself.