"Every nine years nine men enter the house so that I may deliver them from evil. I hear their steps or their voices in the depths of the stone galleries and I run joyfully to find them. The ceremony lasts a few minutes." -Jorge Luis Borges, "The House of Asterion" (1964).
"Okay. Look. We both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster." -GLaDOS, <em>Portal 2</em> (2011).