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121 " Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the " winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility "
122 " Government in and of itself is the foremost agent for destroying order and imposing chaos." " To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for war." " Political theory would be fine in a perfect world, but in an uncertain one, it is a dangerous gamble. "
123 " I could feel the heat rising in my cheeks. 'We spent one night together.''You had sex then?''No we crocheted a quilt.' I cocked my head to side and gave him my nastiest glare." Lorelei Preston to Agent Brody-The Wild Hunt "
124 " Oh, for the love of God. There is no agent more agent than you. I swear you have pin-striped ties encrypted into your DNA. When you die, the coffin is going to read Property of the FBI. "
― Lisa Gardner , The Killing Hour (Quincy & Rainie, #4)
125 " Houses are like people, Agent Lemieux. They have secrets. I'll tell you something I've learned.'Armand Gamache dropped his voice so that Agent Lemieux had to strain to hear.'Do you know what makes us sick, Agent Lemieux?'Lemieux shook his head. Then out of the darkness and stillness he heard the answer.'It's our secrets that make us sick. "
― Louise Penny , The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3)
126 " We pay people and reward them for greed and sleaze . When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure pay cheque and a tacky lingerie line....selling filth so you can get your face on Time magazine... From Jukebox "
― Saira Viola
127 " When a sex tape gets made a star is born with a publicity agent on speed dial a six figure payout and a line of tacky lingerie in the works "
― Saira Viola , Jukebox
128 " As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent. She had not needed his father's tactless comment to understand the full implications of Farouk's death. As he met her unblinking gaze he was reminded of one of Nefret's more vivid descriptions. 'When she's angry, her eyes look like polished steel balls.' That's done it, he thought. She's made up her mind to get David and me out of this if she has to take on every German and Turkish agent in the Middle East. "
― Elizabeth Peters , He Shall Thunder in the Sky (Amelia Peabody, #12)
129 " Mother is the reflective principle, the balancing agent for the child. Like a guru, she allows the child to make mistakes and loves the child without condition. Like nature, she allows consequences to unfold and balance to be restored when it is lost. "
― Vimala McClure , The Tao of Motherhood
130 " Nita: I think I overdid the vulnerability stuff in this last letter. and that’s why I’m having an anxiety attack.Howard: With the vulnerability comes the possibility that you’ll be betrayed. Now that you’ve laid yourself wide open, I am the agent of this betrayal? It’s not my style.Nita: I’ve thought it wasn't other people’s style, too. "
― Sarah E. Olson , Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
