"I often sit on a bench down by the river and people-watch, or ride the buses all day. I`ve learned something from my observations. I have learned, Ms. Danzig, how people live in the world. How they adapt to a universe so black and infinite that their minds cannot correlate the contents of it. Do you know what they do?"
Colleen said, "Why don`t you just tell me."
"They lie," Phantasia said. "To themselves. Or maybe 'lie' isn`t quite the right word. They simplify. <...> They see a world too immense to understand, and shrink it so that they can understand it."