The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7) QUOTES

1 " Look at the snow, the woman was saying to the child. The snow absolves Vienna of its sins. The snow falls on Vienna while the missiles rain on Tel Aviv. "

― Daniel Silva , The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)

3 " I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it before." -Gabriel Allon "

― Daniel Silva , The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)

5 " But I’ve come to realize that this continent is dying a slow death. Europe is receding quietly into history. It’s old and tired, and its young are so pessimistic about the prospects of the future they refuse to have enough children to ensure their own survival. They believe in nothing but their thirty-five-hour workweek and their August vacation. "

― Daniel Silva , The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)

7 " ...Where are these so-called moderate Muslims one always hears about in the press? Do they exist or are they merely figments of our imagination? If one insults the Prophet Muhammad, our Muslim countrymen pour into the streets in a sacred rage and threaten us with beheading. But when one of them commits murder in the Prophet's name..."

"The silence is deafening. "

― Daniel Silva , The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)

9 " Islamic extremism is just the latest virus to thrive in Europe’s nurturing environment. - Gabriel Allon "

― Daniel Silva , The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)

11 " The CIA program known as “extraordinary rendition,” the practice of clandestinely transferring suspected terrorists from one country to another for the purposes of incarceration or interrogation, has been well documented. It was put into place not by President George W. Bush but by his predecessor, Bill Clinton. "

― Daniel Silva , The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)

13 " When we are wronged, we must seek revenge. It is in our culture, our bloodstream. Each time you kill or torture us, you are creating an extended family of enemies that is honor bound to take retribution. - Ibrahim Fawaz "

― Daniel Silva , The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)

15 " It was Professor Solomon Rosner who sounded the first alarm, though his name would never be linked to the affair except in the secure rooms of a drab office building in downtown Tel Aviv. Gabriel Allon, the legendary but wayward son of Israeli intelligence, would later observe that Rosner was the first asset in the annals of Office history to have proven more useful to them dead than alive. Those who overheard the remark found it uncharacteristically callous but in keeping with the bleak mood that by then had settled over them all. "

― Daniel Silva , The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)

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― Daniel Silva , The Secret Servant (Gabriel Allon, #7)