Ramy Sabra

“I saw a bird soaring out of a cave above the open sea. And there was something terrifying about the bird and the endless waves over which it flew. Higher and higher it went and the sky turned to silver and then gradually the silver faded and the sky went dark. The darkness of evening nothing to fear, really, nothing. Blessed darkness. But it was falling gradually and inexorably over nothing save this one tiny creature cawing in the wind above a great wasteland that was the world. Empty caves, empty sands, empty sea.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“don’t ever try to teach me about good and evil. I’ve been there, and you’ve seen nothing but the map.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.”
― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“I don't think I stood still more than a moment, but something changed inside of me. An awesome shift took place. In one instant I saw a vast and terrifying possibility, and in that same instant, without question, I made up my mind.

It had no words to it or scheme or plan. And I would have denied it had anyone questioned me at that moment. I would have said, "No, never, farthest from my thoughts. What do you think I am, what sort of monster" ... And yet the choice had been made.

I understood something absolute.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat