“… I had felt enough of Catholicism’s corporal and emotional stain. On my eighth-grade graduation day, I walked away from it all, finished, telling myself, “Never again.” I was free, free, free at last… and I believed it… for quite a while. However, as I grew older, there were certain things about the way I thought, reacted, behaved. I came to ruefully and bemusedly understand that once you’re Catholic, you’re always a Catholic. So I stopped kidding myself. I don’t often participate in my religion but I know somewhere… deep inside… I’m still on the team.”
“We’ve been in mission 100,000 years… The ship wasn’t designed for that. Neither were we. Each one of us has regenerated a thousand times. Have you any idea what that means? … A thousand times plus. None of us wants to go on but we must. The quest is the quest. Now we’re like the ship, regenerating faster than we can regenerate ourselves. Not the body, not the mind. The spirit. A ship of ghosts, Doctor. Going on and on. Unable to remember why.”
Kayvan: I like it when bad things happen to Nandor because I like bringing out his neurotic, pedantic side. and also it annoys everyone else in the house. (x)
