Matthew Brucker

“He had never seen such eyes before, not even in the faces of soldiers unmanned in the midst of great carnage. Eyes like black mirrors, at once shallow and bottomless. He had the feeling that if he pressed his finger to one of those eyes, it would shatter and fall inward through a black cavern of grief and loss that could never be filled.”
― Greg Iles, Black Cross

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
― Stephen Hunter, Sniper's Honor

“No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships that are in peril.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master

“In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.”
― Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn