Eric Bashirian

“Instead he had become immured, by fear and its majordomo, habit...”
― Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

“All men grew old unless violence overtook them first; the plains offered no third way out of the predicament a man found himself in, simply by the fact of his existence on the face of the earth.”
― Alan LeMay, The Searchers

“Call had begun to think of Gus, and the promise he has made. It would soon be spring, and he would have to be going if he were to keep the promise, which of course he must.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“I remember Ravn, the blind poet and father to Ragnar, often telling me that courage was like a horn of ale. “We begin with a full horn, boy,” he had told me, “but we drain it. Some men drain it fast, maybe their horn was not full to begin with, and others drain it slowly, but courage lessens as we age.”
― Bernard Cornwell, Sword of Kings