Tim Proctor

“But you used to know a good thing when you saw it.” “Trouble is, that’s never what I see when I look in the mirror.” “What do you see?” He looked at her. “Sometimes I don’t see anything at all.”
― Ian Rankin, The Hanging Garden

“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder