Bradlee

“Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant, I act under orders.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises