Eric

“Order, counter order, disorder”; at more than one lecture at Annapolis he had heard that quotation, and during twenty years of service he had seen its truth demonstrated scores of times.”
― C.S. Forester, The Good Shepherd

“I live free and simple, Kirby, and I look on myself in the mirror and say hello to a friend I like. The day I stop liking her, I change my ways.”
― John D. MacDonald, The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything

“Hoover Hess, the owner, was working the desk. He was a loose, asthmatic, scurfy man with the habitual expression of someone having his leg removed without anesthetic. His smile was a special agony. He had gone as high as a seventh mortgage and been down as low as a second. He averaged out at about four.”
― John D. MacDonald, The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything

“I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee.”
― C.S. Forester, The Good Shepherd