Matthew Swagger

“I know that the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it.”
― Ernest Cline, Armada

“And the ghosts walked into my memory, into the happiness, into the pain of my future, and they wished me well. I turned, as though I saw them in the unfolding season, in the beauty and in the death of autumn. Perhaps I had, perhaps I had.”
― Vera Jane Cook, Pleasant Day

“For, in truth, there is no sure way of holding other than by destroying”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“But you know, mon petite, what you got is a gift. And when de good Lord gives you a gift you have to use it. Dat's why he put you here on dis earth. Sometime it's gonna be to help a soul cross over to de other side to meet him. If dat's whey you gott do, den dat's what you gotta do. You can't just keep collecting de dead. You gonna have to find a way to take what you got and work wit dat.”
― Deborah Leblanc, Toe to Toe