Maloy

“I have a story to tell you. It has many beginnings, and perhaps one ending. Perhaps not. Beginnings and endings are contingent things anyway; inventions, devices. Where does any story really begin? There is always context, always an encompassingly greater epic, always something before the described events, unless we are to start every story with “BANG! Expand! Sssss…,” then itemize the whole subsequent history of the universe before settling down, at last, to the particular tale in question. Similarly, no ending is final, unless it is the end of all things…”
― Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist

“Nothing paralyses a man so well as choice.”
― Mark Lawrence, The Wheel of Osheim

“He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

“[I]f I suffered only one fool gladly, I assure you it would be you.”
― Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward