It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable. - Kage Baker

You've no appreciation of high romance, that's your trouble, Lewis said, climbing in and starting the motor. Joseph nodded somberly. Boy meets girl, girl loses boy, everybody dies. I just don't get it.

It’s sad when people are stupid.

That wasn't very godly, Alec calls up to him.
And what has God to do with me? Nicholas shouts back. No voices speak to me out of any burning bush. No word at all. Hideous vacancy, monstrous indifference, and a senseless universe!
Well, says Alec cautiously, I would think that was a good thing. Shouldn't you have grown out of this by now? What do you want meaning in the universe for, anyway? Nothing means anything! We're just here to go along for the adventure.