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1 " I thought upon the way in which we'd always shared each other's happiness, believing it would make the moment burn brighter and longer, but sadness can be shared too, perhaps sharing makes is burn briefer and less bright. "
― Tom Rob Smith
2 " Trust but check. Check on those we trust. "
― Tom Rob Smith , Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
3 " To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs. "
4 " You are not doing this for her. You're doing it for yourself. Your life is not just about the people you love. It's also about the people you hate. "
5 " ...Except when I was alone. I'd hate myself. It's how we feel about ourselves when we're alone that must guide our decisions. "
― Tom Rob Smith , The Farm
6 " There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you. "
7 " Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas? "
― Tom Rob Smith , Agent 6 (Leo Demidov, #3)
8 " —Isn’t this how it starts? You have a cause you believe in, a cause worth dying for. Soon, it’s a cause worth killing for. Soon, it’s a cause worth killing innocent people for. "
9 " His hate wasn't professional; it was an obsession, a fixation, as if unrequited love had grown awful, twisted into something ugly. "
10 " The price of this story was the audience's innocence. "
11 " If he wanted to hear about love, the first verse was his to sing. "
12 " Leo, I have another secret. I've fallen in love with you.” "I've always loved you. "
13 " Trust but check "
14 " Let me quickly remind you that the allegation of being mentally incapable is a tried and tested method of silencing women dating back hundreds of years, a weapon to discredit us when we fought against abuses and stood up to authority. "
15 " The survival of their political system justified anything. The promise of a golden age where none of this brutality would exist, where everything would be in plenty and poverty would be a memory, justified anything. "
16 " sentimentality could blind a man to the truth. Those who appear the most trustworthy deserve the most suspicion. "
17 " The system required the consent of everyone, even if they consented by doing nothing. "
― Tom Rob Smith , The Secret Speech (Leo Demidov, #2)
18 " The duty of an investigator was to scratch away at innocence until guilt was uncovered. If no guilt was uncovered then they hadn’t scratched deep enough. "
19 " A person can always be sure of what they don't know. They might not be sure of what they know. "
20 " I’d mistaken familiarity for insight and equated hours spent together as a measure of understanding. "
