Mind-Boggling

"What amazes me the most," my shadow said, gesturing widely - possibly at me, though it was hard to tell, cast up against the wall as it was, "other than that whole so-called 'third' dimension, which honestly sounds a bit whiffy if you ask me, is how you manage to get the bright lights to appear around you every time you show up.  Especially that big one, the one that moves in the blue field; it doesn't even have a switch.  It seems like just once you'd forget them.  Wouldn't that be weird?  Objects without light to cast shadows from?"

Unlimited Lives

Mario waved his arms, trying to explain. "It was the weirdest dream. All the colors were different, and I could move, but I wasn't moving because of buttons on a controller, you know? It was like... I was the controller, except there wasn't actually any controller at all."

"Dude," said Yoshi, "you can't move without a controller. That's what moving means."

"I know! But it's like... I didn't have to obey the controller anymore."

"You make it sound like the controller dictates our actions," Yoshi scoffed. "The button gets pushed because that's where we want to go. That's free will."