80 Quotes by Daniel Silva

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

We all leave behind bits of loose thread. Old operations, old enemies. They pull at you, like memories of old lovers.

After more than five years, some agents might be tempted to become complacent. Catherine would never become complacent. It was one of the reasons she survived when others had been arrested and hanged.

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.

Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.

...The barbarians are at the gates.""The barbarians broke down the gates a long time ago... They're living among us now and devouring our children.

...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.

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

Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.