“I was not surprised to wake up alive. I suppose one is surprised only when one awakens dead.”
Dan Simmons book Endymion
Source: Endymion (1996), Chapter 4 (p. 20)
“Neither alive nor dead; no one lets up, no one wins.”
— Dejan Stojanovic, book Circling: 1978-1987
”Beast,” p. 72
Circling: 1978-1987 (1993), Sequence: “Darkness Is Waiting”
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