“I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.”

“I don't know for sure where I'm going to end up.But I know who I love. And I'm figuring out that might be enough to live for.”

“I don't want to go to Peru."How do you know? You've never been there."I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.”

“That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”

“I don't know how to let you go. I don't think I can do it.”

“Mostly, he said, I've been thinking about what I'm not going to do. When I think of the last few years, I've been hounded by regrets for what's already happened and fears for what might. By nostalgia for what I've lost and desire for what I don't have. All this wanting and not wanting. It's worn me out. For once, I'm going to try the present on for size. -Amor Towles from Rules of Civility”