Rhett Clipper

“What was on the other side?"
Donna said, "He said there was another world on the other side. He could see it."
"He... never went through it?"
"That’s why he kicked the shit out of everything in his apartment; he never thought of going through it, he just admired the doorway and then later he couldn’t see it at all and it was too late. It opened for him a few days and then it was closed and gone forever.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“We march inexorably toward our destination. There is no curve or gentle slope to relieve us; straight ahead lies the conclusion of our national folly, the terrible work we set in motion at some unknown point in time. Behind, the long, narrow way of our past, paved in hard history and stretching into blackness.”
― Olivia Hawker, The Ragged Edge of Night

“Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.”
― Nora Roberts, The Pagan Stone

“modern man suffered from too much vanity and a lack of self-reflection and had forgotten how to deal with frustrations and setbacks in a healthy way.”
― Annejet van der Zijl, An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew