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The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1) QUOTES

The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1) QUOTES

1 " The further we are from the last disaster, the closer we are to the next. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

2 " For every terrorist we kill, there’s another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They’re like shark’s teeth: break one and another will rise in it’s place. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

3 " I suppose I needed to share it with her. I suppose I needed someone to forgive me. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

4 " The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel; of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a prince among them.” —Numbers 13:1-2 "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

5 " Tariq said, “You never answered my question.” “Which question was that?” “Do you like fado music?” “I suppose it’s an acquired taste.” He smiled and added, “Like Lisbon itself. For some reason it reminds me of home.” “Fado is a music devoted to suffering and pain. That’s why it reminds you of home.” “I suppose you’re right. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

6 " Snow drifted over the Herengracht as he made his way slowly toward the houseboat on the Amstel. A pair of cyclists glided silently past, leaving ribbons of black in the fresh snow. Evening in a foreign city always made him melancholy. Lights coming on, offices letting out, bars and cafés slowly filling. Through the broad windows of the canal houses he could see parents coming home to children, husbands coming home to wives, lovers reuniting, warm lights burning. Life, he thought. Someone else’s life, someone else’s homeland. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

7 " What’s your point?” “My point is that revenge is good. Revenge is healthy. Revenge is purifying.” “Revenge only leads to more killing and more revenge. For every terrorist we kill, there’s another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They’re like sharks’ teeth: break one and another will rise in its place. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

8 " The prime minister listened raptly as Shamron brought him up-to-date. He was by nature a schemer. He had begun his career in the cutthroat atmosphere of academia, then moved to the hornets’ nest at the Foreign Ministry. By the time he entered the political arena, he was well versed in the black arts of bureaucratic treachery. His meteoric rise through the party ranks was attributed to his powerful intellect and his willingness to resort to subterfuge, misdirection, and outright blackmail to get what he wanted. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

9 " By way of deception, thou shalt do war.—Motto of the Mossad "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

10 " German girls made him uneasy. Reflexively his eyes wandered over her—across her large, rounded breasts, up and down her long legs. She mistook his attention for flirting, tilted her head, smiled at him through a lock of flaxen hair, suggested a coffee in the café across the square. The restorer apologized and said he had to leave. “Besides,” he said, looking up at the soaring nave, “this is Stephansdom, Fraülein. Not a pickup bar. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

11 " the further we are from our last disaster, the closer we are to our next. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

12 " A spy’s work is never done.” “But these days all the smart boys do their compulsory service in the IDF and then run like hell. They want to make money and talk on their cell phones from the cafés of Ben Yehuda Street. We used to get only the best. Like you, Gabriel. Now we get the ones who are too stupid or lazy to make it in the real world.” “Change your recruiting tactics. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

13 " As he waited for daybreak he sifted through the individual scents that combine to create the unique fragrance of Jerusalem: sage and jasmine, honey and coffee, leather and tobacco, cypress and eucalyptus. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

14 " If Tariq could determine that Israeli intelligence was involved, he would immediately be transformed from the hunted to the hunter. He thought of an operation he had conducted while he was still with Jihaz el-Razd, the PLO intelligence arm. He had identified an Office agent working with diplomatic cover from the Israeli embassy in Madrid. The officer had managed to recruit several spies within the PLO, and Tariq decided it was time to pay him back. He sent a Palestinian to Madrid posing as a defector. The Palestinian met with the Israeli officer inside the embassy and promised to turn over sensitive intelligence about PLO leaders and their personal habits. At first the Israeli balked. Tariq had anticipated this, so he had given his agent several pieces of true, relatively harmless "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

15 " Two Montreals, two realities, thought Jacqueline as they walked back to the hotel. In one reality they had just gone shopping. In the other Tariq had spent an hour checking to see if he was being followed, and Tariq had taken possession of his gun. "

― Daniel Silva , The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)