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1 " So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please. "
― Daniel Silva , The Marching Season (Michael Osbourne, #2)
2 " Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window. "
― Daniel Silva , The Unlikely Spy
3 " He felt as though the bones of his ribcage were snapping beneath the weight of the stone that God had laid over his heart. "
― Daniel Silva , The Heist (Gabriel Allon, #14)
4 " The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next. "
― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)
5 " We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers. "
― Daniel Silva
6 " After more than five years, some agents might be tempted to become complacent. Catherine would never become complacent. It was one of the reasons she survived when others had been arrested and hanged. "
7 " Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert. "
― Daniel Silva , The English Girl (Gabriel Allon, #13)
8 " Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais. "
9 " Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air. "
10 " For every terrorist we kill, there’s another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They’re like shark’s teeth: break one and another will rise in it’s place. "
11 " hamartia "
― Daniel Silva , The New Girl (Gabriel Allon, #19)
12 " Aggressive recruiting, lots of dirty tricks. He specializes in kompromat.” It was the Russian term for damaging material used to silence political opponents or to blackmail assets into "
13 " In my opinion, most marriages are based either on money or the fear of being alone. "
14 " Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC "
15 " A recognition that we Americans don’t have the stomach or the backbone to do the things we have to do to win this fight. Our fingers have been burned. Our image has taken a terrible beating. We’ve taken a look in the mirror, and we don’t like what we see. Our politicians would like us to make reservations on the first flight out of Iraq so they can start spending money on the sorts of things that win votes. Our people want to go back to their fat, happy lives. They want to bury their heads in the sand and pretend that there really isn’t an organized force in their world that is actively plotting and planning their destruction. We’ve paid a terrible price for climbing into the gutter with the terrorists and fighting them on their level, but I’m sure you always knew we would. No one’s paid a higher price than you. "
16 " The occupants of the other three looked like the people they had seen rioting in the streets of Paris that morning. They were citizens of the other France, the France one didn’t read about in guidebooks. They were the put-upon and the left-behind, the ones without glittering degrees from elite institutions of learning. Globalization and automation had eroded their value in the workforce. The service economy was their only option. Their counterparts in Britain and America had already had their say at the ballot box. France, reckoned Gabriel, would be next. "
17 " It is not a question of whether France will be attacked by terrorists again but only a question of when and where. It is a sad fact that more lives will be lost to the fires of extremism. Regrettably, this is what it means to be a citizen of Europe in the twenty-first century. - French president "
― Daniel Silva , Portrait of a Spy (Gabriel Allon, #11)
18 " The engines of America run on Saudi oil, but the networks of global Islamic terrorism run largely on Saudi money. "
19 " The marriage between hashish and terrorism,” he said, “is as old as time itself. As you know, the word assassin is derived from the Arabic hashashin, the Shia killers who acted under the influence of hashish. "
20 " He would be painstaking in his approach, meticulous. For there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man. "
