80 Quotes by Daniel Silva

That was the only thing Washington was good at these days – recriminations and apportionment of blame. There was once a time, during the darkest days of the Cold War, when American foreign policy was characterized by consensus and steadfastness. Now the two parties could not agree on what to call the enemy, let alone how to combat him.

Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.

The strongman and the “corporate state” – by another name, fascism – are all the rage. Western-style democracy and the global institutions that created an unprecedented period of peace in Europe are suddenly out of vogue.

In my opinion, most marriages are based either on money or the fear of being alone.

With his pewter-colored locks and sturdy jaw, Graham Seymour was the archetypal British civil servant, a man who’d been born, bred, and educated to lead. He was handsome, but not too; he was tall, but not remarkably so. He made others feel inferior, especially Americans.

But now, in the era of lost inhibition, it seemed no detail of life was too mundane or humiliating to share. In the online age, it was more important to live out loud than to live with dignity.

She named the child Gabriel, the messenger of God, the defender of Israel, the interpreter of Daniel’s visions.

She helped Shamron into his jacket and kissed his cheek. There was simple ritual in this act. How many times had he separated from his wife after hearing that Jews had been killed by a bomb? He had lost count long ago. He had resigned himself, late in life, that it would never end.

He would be painstaking in his approach, meticulous. For there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.