Iain M. Banks Quote

I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.

There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when...

I believe in (the American) people. I believe that people are more good than bad. I believe tragic things happen. I think there's evil in the world. But I think that at the end of the day, if we work...

When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy's.

We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces.

And with a massive roar the fifth wall comes down and the house of fiction falls, taking Viola and Sunny and Bertie with it. They melt into thin air and disappear. Pouf!

Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.

Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way...

Across the world millions of lives are altered by the absence of the dead, but three members of Teddy's last crew—Clifford the bomb-aimer, Fraser, the injured pilot, and Charlie, the tail-end Charlie—...