No Turning Back Quotes

“And with every step I took it became more impossible for me to turn back. And my mind was empty—or it was as though my mind had become one enormous, anaesthetized wound. I thought only, One day I'll weep for this. One of these days I'll start to cry.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I am merely at the midway point in the novel of my own life. On around page 250 of a 500-page tale and, given future medical advances, maybe even 200. There’s no reason why the next 250, 300, or even 350 pages will not be far more exciting than the first half.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

“He turned to face the long, shadowy hall. There was no turning back now. Unless, of course, he decided to turn back.”
― Lauren Magaziner, Pilfer Academy: A School So Bad It's Criminal

“Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there's no turning back.”
― A.D. Posey

“For the first time, Rose understood the danger before her. The difference between a man and a boy was as subtle as that of a wolf and a hound.”
― Harper St. George, The Devil and the Heiress

“There is a point where the universe can deliver you from the verge of regret. I know your love for me will take you there.”
― Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

“Once you are at the point where you can call yourself a writer, there’s no turning back.”
― A.D. Posey

“At the last minute, he broke the rule and he looked. He was so rapt in his view of the light at the end of the tunnel, he got excited, tuned up, he got crazy nervous and for a second he wavered in his confidence and he looked! To confirm or affirm or just firm up,’ students laughing ‘his manly love for her and in that motion of divine stupidity, he killed her dead forever with a glance. Hades ripped her back into his den and that was, proverbially, that.’

A girl across from me says bitterly, ‘No second, second chance for Orpheus.’

‘He was fucked,’ D continues, nodding. ‘Not because the gods were heartless, but because he fucked up. The guilt of that. Can you imagine? Spent the rest of his pathetic days wallowing, lamenting, composing (or was it decomposing?) heartbreaking tunes upon his lyre, dissolving in grief and music and art, never being the least bit happy or lovable. The saddest sap of all. How do we tell a story like that without being sappy? Oh woe! How do we shape into lines our most harrowing mistakes and losses without drenching them in sticky poetic sap?”
― Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine

“Yes, I am as one who tries to sail against the current up over a waterfall, and I feel that the current has grabbed me and overpowered me ...... I no longer know where it leads me ...... perhaps towards complete destruction ...... and
yet I cannot get off the boat now that I am halfway, the decision has been made ......
there is no turning back.”
― Lili Elbe, Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change

“Yes, I am as one who tries to sail against the current up over a waterfall, and I feel that the current has grabbed me and overpowered me ...... I no longer know where it leads me ...... perhaps towards complete destruction ...... and yet I cannot get off the boat now that I am halfway, the decision has been made ...... there is no turning back.”
― Lili Elbe, Lili: A Portrait of the First Sex Change