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The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6) QUOTES

The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6) QUOTES

1 " We could go from bliss and harmony to anger and recriminations as fast and with as little warning as a tropical storm. What made it bearable, what made it good, was that the foul weather would pass with equal suddenness, usually leaving something glorious in its wake. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

2 " It’s been my experience that people who can express their political views only in clichés and passionate generalizations are fanatics. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

3 " You forget the things you want to remember and remember the things you want to forget. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

4 " It has everything to do with Rotterdam. America’s oil addiction is a sickness that’s killing the patient. Christ, Americans would rather send soldiers to war than carpool to work. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

5 " Sometimes you need the anesthesia. Because what you learn about yourself when fear finally overtakes you isn’t pretty. You understand that the person you thought of as yourself, your immutable, indivisible self, is just an overlay, fragile and frail. Fear strips away the façade. And having to see what lies beneath, and accept it, makes you different from everyone who hasn’t been similarly forged. You’ve been aged; they remain neophytes. You have brutal clarity; they, comforting illusions. You’ve looked into the abyss, and can feel it looking back still; they don’t even know such a place exists. And for all of it, you hate them. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

6 " vicissitudes "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

7 " perambulations "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

8 " skein "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

9 " You’ve looked into the abyss, and can feel it looking back still; "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

10 " peccadillo. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

11 " profusion "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

12 " propitiate "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

13 " steel Jaeger-Lecoultre Reverso Grande Taille "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

14 " Jean-Louis Murat, Patricia Kaas "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

15 " Charvet. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

16 " If he were a philosopher king or a benevolent dictator, the only jobs he thought he might enjoy more than his current occupation, he’d have a rule that you could only authorize a war if you were actually going to go off and personally fight it. That’d get the politicians singing “Kumbaya” right quick. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

17 " After all, to worry, at a minimum you have to care. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

18 " It wasn’t how far you fell, it was how high you bounced "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

19 " malingerer. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)

20 " bathysphere "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Ascendant (John Rain, #6)