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Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1) QUOTES

Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1) QUOTES

1 " With her make-up-free complexion and nondescript brown hair gathered in a scrappy up-do, she looks like someone for whom there are more important things than being thought pretty. She might be an academic, or an assistant in the better sort of a bookshop. But there's something about her—a stillness, a fixity of gaze—that tells another story. "

― Luke Jennings , Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)

2 " Without predators, people who can think the unthinkable, and act without fear or hesitation, the world stands still. You are an evolutionary necessity. "

― Luke Jennings , Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)

3 " Someone who could get up in the morning, make coffee, choose what to wear, and then go out and cold-bloodedly put a total stranger to death. Did you have to be some kind of anomalous, psychopathic freak to do that? Did you have to be born that way? Or could any woman, correctly programmed, be turned into a professional executioner? "

― Luke Jennings , Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)

4 " shufti. "

― Luke Jennings , Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)

5 " I really really don't want to die here, among these criminally ugly furnishings. "

― Luke Jennings , Codename Villanelle (Killing Eve, #1)