Matthew Brucker

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

“The back must slave to feed the belly.”
― Michael Gibney, Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line

“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

“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