80 Quotes by Daniel Silva

We did what we always do. We closed ranks, burned our files, and waited for the storm to pass.

In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity.

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

Signed his name with his left hand, held a paintbrush with his right, handled his knife and fork with either. And his Beretta? Thankfully, Isherwood did not know the answer to that.

He looked older, harder, perhaps wiser. The Middle East was like that. It turned hope to despair, idealists into Machiavellians.

They sat in an awkward, embarrassed silence for a moment, the way Englishmen are apt to do after sharing private thoughts.

Like many Vatican pronouncements, the official version of events would bear little resemblance to the truth.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That’s not a record to be proud of.

The owner doesn’t ask questions about where the painting has been. He’s just happy to have it hanging on his wall again.