Kevin

“And this was all getting a bit steampunk for my liking. If Jacob Astor turned out to be wearing goggles it was going to go very hard on him indeed.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, False Value

“When Nightingale was training me he said that if you’re not dead in the first instance, then your chances of survival are much improved. “By how much?” I’d asked. “That depends,” said Nightingale. “On what?” “On what happens next,” he said.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, False Value

“it buried between the fastenings of a Frenchman’s corselet. Which is actually not a bad end for a fine dagger like that one.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Captain Alatriste

“Foxholes might breed belief, but trench systems are full of fatalistic cynics.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Lies Sleeping