Jeder neue Tag sollte mit einem sauberen Tisch beginnen, auf dem sich neue Herausforderungen ausbreiten konnten.

Henning Mankell, Der Chinese (2008)

Of course, it is likely enough, my friends, [...] that we are going to our doom: the last march of the ents. But if we stayed at home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. that thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now.

Treebeard, in: J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, pt. II: The Two Towers (1956)

It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenage dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility or a dead end.

Toni Morrison, Tar Baby (1981)

Das Leben war einen Versuch wert, mochte das Risiko auch noch so groß sein.

William Nicholson, Das Lied des Feuers (2002)