# Quote — Matthew Stover, Blade of Tyshalle

> "We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask--and to answer--the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer."

- Author: [Matthew Stover](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover.md)
- Book: [Blade of Tyshalle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle.md)
- Page: 472
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matthew_Stover#Blade_of_Tyshalle_(2001)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/we-can-each

## More from this book

> I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

p. 23 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/i-read-once.md)

> Only human, after all.

p. 417 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/only-human-after.md)

> He had no idea what he should do now. Without destiny to guide him, he was lost in a vast, whistling darkness. Any direction he might choose was purely abitary; it would make no more sense, offer no more hope, than would sitting still. Which offered neither sense nor hope at all.

p. 426 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle/he-had-no-idea.md)