Ilia Bera

“Winning is an abstract concept. There is no winning in real life. Winning is just a device for storytellers to conveniently end a tale, but everyone knows that real stories—real lives—only end in death. But the dead don’t win anything except the release from the never-ending game, the never-ending race. There is no winning, but that doesn’t mean you have to lose. You can’t lose if you refuse to play, if you refuse to fight, if you refuse the race the sun day after day. Don’t surrender, because to surrender is to lose. Don’t give up, because to give up is to lose. When you refuse to fight, there is no surrender. When you refuse to race the sun, you can finally stop to appreciate the light it brings to the earth each and every day.”
― Ilia Bera, Shift

“Sometimes, if you sit back and just simply watch the world around you, you will realize that our seemingly insignificant lives are actually part of an epic tale, unfolding right before our eyes.”
― Ilia Bera, Frostbitten: The Complete Series