Time doth flit; oh shit.

I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top.
At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.
— from The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves.

—George R.R. Martin
[when asked if he was going to let any Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire characters live]  (via starkpain)

(Source: let-them-eat-static, via thronesmeme)