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The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3) QUOTES

The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3) QUOTES

1 " Men use these words to frighten us, Livia would tell them. To intimidate and paralyze. We need to habituate to what upsets us so we can fight through it. Deny our attackers the weapon of their words. And what was true for the verbal was true, too, for the physical. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

2 " First was the fewer, not less. Now it was the care in avoiding a preposition at the end of a sentence. An educated man, presumably. Precise. Apparently fussy about small-minded rules, perhaps to compensate for a willingness to ignore large ones. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

3 " The insult was calculated. Whether this guy was an amateur or a professional, he would perceive himself as the latter, and would now be invested in proving it to me. Interrogators call the technique ego down. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

4 " mono no aware, the sadness of being human, "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

5 " we rarely see what we prefer to overlook. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

6 " Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light; I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

7 " Do all the people who know me know me better than I know myself? "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

8 " Checking your six?” he said, still smiling. “I thought you wanted an airport because they’re safe. What is it about me that scares people so much? "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

9 " Medicine isn’t supposed to taste good—that’s what candy is for. Medicine is supposed to make you better. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

10 " the young man’s blindness irreparable, his mistakes immutable, the consequences irreversible. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

11 " Rain shook his head. “I don’t like meetings generally. I especially don’t like ones that are unnecessary and proposed by someone else. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

12 " That was the dirty little secret of 9/11, "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

13 " Both women had been wearing earbuds—one of the many things Livia taught her self-defense students never to do, because demonstrating both that you can’t hear and that you’re too naïve to know better is a beacon to predators. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

14 " But denial . . . well, you know what they say about denial.” Ben nodded, seeing where this was going now, not wanting to show what he really thought of it. “It has no survival value. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

15 " He moves like a cat, hears like a dog, and hides like a rabbit. And strikes like a damn rattlesnake. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

16 " If you want something you’ve never had before, you have to do something you’ve never done before. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

17 " of eternity. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

18 " The months and days are the travelers of eternity. —Bashō "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

19 " long-ago lifetime. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)

20 " his pipe. "

― Barry Eisler , The Killer Collective (John Rain, #10; Ben Treven #4; Livia Lone #3)