Noah Briscoe

“You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

“Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”
― Robert Jordan

“To his surprise he felt tired but lighter, and his head seemed clear again. No more debates disturbed his mind. He knew all the arguments of despair and would not listen to them. His will was set, and only death would break it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King: The Lord of the Rings, Part Three