Matt Rogers > Quotes

“me fired up.’ ‘Thought you said you were trying to avoid this kind of thing in retirement.’ ‘I was. Doesn’t seem to be working out at all. I was adamant that this was the day I would put it all behind me. It’s why I was in such a hurry to leave Corsica. The old me would have razed half the island to the ground to sort out the mercenary situation.’ ‘That seems to be what you’re doing now.”
― Matt Rogers, Reloaded

“King realised there was little separating a corporate sociopath from a violent sociopath, save for habits.”
― Matt Rogers, Weapons

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
― Matt Rogers, Ghosts

“sometimes there’s jobs where I’d rather die in the process than live to see the results of my failure. This is one of those times.”
― Matt Rogers, Weapons

“You’re only happy if you’re progressing.”
― Matt Rogers, Ciphers

“If you accomplish something good with hard work, the labour passes quickly, but the good endures; if you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures.”
― Matt Rogers, Fathers

“If you want peace, King, you need to refuse to react.”
― Matt Rogers, Imprisoned

“Exercise was just that. Temporary discomfort for long-term benefit.”
― Matt Rogers, Imprisoned

“The Bay of Calvi twinkled under a cloudless sky. It was mid-summer on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, and the weather couldn’t have been more perfect. A collection of multi-million dollar pleasure yachts — all polished and smoothed until they gleamed — rested in a spacious marina built into one side of the bay. The turquoise water had a clarity that seemed to be the trademark for these kind of exotic locations. It lapped gently at the sandy shore, adding soft background noise to the serene ambience of the bay.  The”
― Matt Rogers, Reloaded

“She was the family he’d never be able to have. She was the shred of humanity he’d held onto when his own life devolved into chaos again and again. She was the reason he couldn’t stay in one place, because if he did he’d end up settling down with someone, and he didn’t have the stomach to have a family that would be put in danger by the nature of his existence.”
― Matt Rogers, The King & Slater Series #1-3

“concrete”
― Matt Rogers, Hunted

“in”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“Jameson was a small town buried in the never-ending woods of the Australian countryside, far from the twenty-four hour bustle of the city. The isolation gave Brandt room to breathe. At least, that’s what he told people. In truth, he fucking hated the place. Hundreds of square miles of nothingness in every direction meant there weren’t many places to make new acquaintances.”
― Matt Rogers, Isolated

“Somalia. None of that applies to me. You all know what I’m here for, but you need to afford me the ability to react to things however I please.”
― Matt Rogers, The Jason King Files: Books 1-3

“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.” ​— ​Ambrose Bierce”
― Matt Rogers, Sharks

“eyes. A switch had flipped in his brain — something primal rising up, something that hadn’t been activated in a long time. Because he wasn’t exactly the most appealing package on the dating scene, but now there was some small part of his brain going, Wait — could you pull this off? Is she serious?”
― Matt Rogers, The King & Slater Series #1-3

“That’s what the weakest of the weak do. They blame everyone else. They shirk all responsibility. They do anything and everything to advance their own position in society, and if it all falls apart they throw their hands up in the air and say, “What else could I have done?”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“King had to make a decision now. He could leave the key here, move onto the next town and forget any of this ever happened. Or he could continue prodding.”
― Matt Rogers, Isolated

“Pain was nothing to them. It’s everything to most people, who shy away when it crops up in their lives. But both he and King had made a career out of going directly toward the pain, toward the suffering, in hopes of a better result when it came time to perform. It was eerily similar to what elite athletes go through before competition, only with more dire physical consequences. If they didn’t perform in the field, they didn’t get a participation trophy. They died. That translated to a sickening work ethic, and a pain tolerance practically unrivalled anywhere else on the planet. It meant that when one of them badly sprained their ankle, they taped it back up and kept soldiering on, no matter what it did to them mentally. Because all pain comes to an end. It can’t last forever.”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“There were none of the official procedures for military funerals. There were no soldiers or marines or sailors or airmen. There was no flag draped over the coffin. Because Ruby Nazarian didn’t exist — she’d never officially worked for the government in any capacity. She’d been a black-ops killer in a dark, secret world, much like King. Their achievements went unrecognised in the public eye, because if their efforts were revealed, the shadowy reality of the secret world would need to be revealed in turn.”
― Matt Rogers, The King & Slater Series #1-3

“War is made of impossible choices.”
― Matt Rogers, Weapons

“If he had unfinished business,’ King said, ‘I can finish it for him. Or I can just go down there and snoop around. I can do anything I want — I think. So you don’t need to spend time bringing me up to speed on Reed’s psychological profile or his history in the military, or any official procedures I’m supposed to adhere to in Somalia.”
― Matt Rogers, The Jason King Files: Books 1-3

“Correlation isn’t causation—”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“This is life. Sometimes it’s messy.”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“He didn’t think he’d ever get used to the sight of life sapping from a human being for as long as he lived.”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“perspicacious:”
― Matt Rogers, Double Life: A Dante Jacoby Thriller

“He brought them back up to max-speed and followed the road, tearing around the bends as fast as he dared. This area was more perilous. Away from the estate, there were no houses boxing them in. No barricades, no railings. Just one wrong turn and a hundred-foot drop to certain death. The BMW was on its final throes. Any more significant force applied to its chassis would buckle it completely.”
― Matt Rogers, Reloaded

“Well-trained combatants think there’s a way to adapt to any situation. And usually there is. But sometimes the stimuli becomes too much. Sometimes you get overwhelmed. Sometimes… …it all falls apart.”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts

“Is it because we have a conscience?’ he said. ‘Is that what it is? In this fucked-up world, with this fucked-up job, giving us these fucked-up memories. Is that what gnaws at us? The fact that we think we’re decent people doing honest work, when we’re in the business of killing.”
― Matt Rogers, The King & Slater Series #1-3

“But does it ever go the way you think it’s going to?”
― Matt Rogers, Contracts