"Werewolves, vampires, and communist goblins? Is this even likely, Chuck? Maybe you're just some slob who got stung in the throat by a bee while sleeping and slipped into a coma. Wake up, Chuck! Your family is waiting. Your bills are waiting."
— The Black Signal, The Secret World
"I'm sure that's part of the punishment — to create a world for yourself but only be a servant in it, to be a god but never know it."
— The Doctor, Big Finish Doctor Who, "The Holy Terror"
"I was going to be the new Director of this place. I helped you get a job here, so that we could be together. You were an office assistant. You'd make coffee, and deliver the mail, and there was always plenty of work to do. And it stayed that way, forever and ever. It was nice. Really nice. But here's the strange thing... the dream shifted. And none of it was real anymore. It was a game. We were in a game, and it was a fucking boring game. But you couldn't stop playing. And then it shifted again... o-or maybe it was another dream already... o-or maybe I'm just confusing them. But in this other dream, it was more like a musical. This is an ordinary song, about an ordinary girl from an ordinary town. It's the ordinary story! She worked an ordinary job, in an ordinary office, and... something, something, something, something."
— Dylan Faden to Jesse Faden, Control
"I know I'm a worker. A transformation worker. Let's start with you telling me why you made me think I wasn't one."
— Cassel, The Curse Workers: White Cat
