Brian Gordon

“And again the ghost uttered a cry, shaking its chains and wrestling its shadowy hands. “You are tied up,” said Scrooge shakily. “Tell me, why?”
― Charles Dickens, The Christmas Eve: A Ghost Story : Charles Dickens's Best Classic Horror Thrillers by Charles Dickens

“I opened the card. It read: SO YOU CAN FIND YOUR WAY BACK TO ME. I opened the box. It was a lensatic compass. You said, “Read the back.” I turned it over. It was engraved. MY TRUE NORTH. You hung it around my neck and whispered, “Without you, I’d be lost.”
― Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us

“There are many trails in this life, but the one that matters most, few men are able to walk … even Comanche men. It is the trail of a true human being. I think you are on this trail. It is a good thing for me to see. It is good for my heart.”
― Michael Blake, Dances with Wolves / The Holy Road

“Often in war, you don’t know why you’ve not been fired upon. War’s like that. It’s long stretches of confusion and boredom, interspersed with insane, adrenalin-pumping bursts of action. It’s unpredictable, and there are no set rules. That’s just how it is.”
― Phil Campion, Born Fearless: From SAS to Mercenary to Pirate Hunter