"The road home is tinged with regret and the road forward is full of the unknown."
- Joaquin Lowe
"Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they'd yet encountered. Cold to crack the stones. To take your life."
- Cormac McCarthy
"He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibular calculations in his skull cranked out their reckonings. An old chronicle. To seek out the upright...."
"He watched him stoke the flames, God's own firedrake. The sparks rushed upward and died in the starless dark. Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its grou..."
"In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles."
"Siddhartha wants liberation, Dante wants Beatrice, Frodo wants to get to Mount Doom—we all want something. Quest is elemental to the human experience. All road narratives are to some extent built on q..."
- Vanessa Veselka