Nora

“Well, in the end, there was no helping this. Sometimes you just had to adopt the attitude summed up by, Too bad.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“She had even started thinking of giving up entirely, beginning to agree with those who held that life-tasks weren’t really about accomplishing anything beyond the passing of time before all such tasks, ambitions, goals and aspirations became – supposedly – laughably irrelevant and petty.”
― Iain M. Banks

“Living either never has any point, or is always its own point; being a naturally cheery soul, I lean towards the latter.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“A clever trick does not a concept make.”
― Larry Brooks, Story Engineering