Ray Blaquiere

“That’s when you rise, finally. You rise out of the mud, in the rain, and you go back inside and suddenly everything gets really cold and calm. The answer doesn’t lie in your backyard because no one is going to come and save you even if you beg them to. Especially if you beg them to. You’re on your own, like you’ve always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can’t go forward anymore.
You have to hang on. You’re almost there. You can make it to the end.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance

“War is ever the folly of the ignorant. But I have seen much to convince me some wars must be fought, to the bitterest end if need be.”
― Anthony Ryan, Queen of Fire

“Don't seek the end at inception,
And don't grope for beginning in the end,
End has mergence and,
Inception has infinity.”
― Yash Thakur

“I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger