Drake

“How can you treat death so lightly?" she asks.
"Because it happens," he replies. "It is inevitable. I do not mourn the falling of a leaf or the breaking of a wave. I do not sorrow for a shooting star as it burns itself up in the atmosphere. Why should I?”
― Roger Zelazny, Creatures of Light and Darkness

“Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.”
― Roger Zelazny, Blood of Amber

“He swam at my feet,
Powerful arms in broad strokes
Sweeping the sand.
So I asked this man,
What seas do you swim?
And to this he answered,
'I have seen shells and the like
On this desert floor,
So I swim this land's memory
Thus honouring its past,'
Is the journey far, queried I.
'I cannot say,' he replied,
'For I shall drown long before
I am done.'

Sayings of the Fool
Thenys Bule"

Steven Erikson - Malazan Book of the Fallen 02
Deadhouse Gates”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.”
― Roger Zelazny, The Hand of Oberon