79 Quotes by Terry Hayes

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

I had been to Jeddah on my previous trip, so I knew it well enough. There was only one thing to recommend it: say, you wanted to commit suicide and couldn’t quite find the courage, two days in Jeddah would do the trick.

nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes; it changes behind your back

It says in the Qur’an that the taking of a single life destroys a universe, and there was the evidence in front of me - twenty seven hundred universes shattered in a few moments. Universes of family, of children, of friends.

The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.