Yvette Mechanic

“This was at dusk, in mid-October. And she left. I lay down on the sofa and fell asleep without turning on the light. I was awakened by the feeling that the octopus was there. Groping in the dark, I barely managed to turn on the light. My pocket watch showed two o’clock in the morning. I was falling ill when I went to bed, and I woke up sick. It suddenly seemed to me that the autumn darkness would push through the glass and pour into the room, and I would drown in it as in ink.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“The team that keeps winning is not the most talented but the most hard-working.”
― Zoltan Andrejkovics, The Invisible Game: The Mindset of a Winning Team

“That's the difference between crime and business. For business you gotta have capital. Sometimes I think it's the only difference.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“If they were determined to steal his train, he was equally determined to get it back”
― Phillip Urlevich, The Georgia Express: A Tale of the Civil War