79 Quotes by Terry Hayes

"With the family’s meager goods finally unloaded, the boy’s mother stood with the old man in the decaying kitchen, quietly trying to thank him."

"Locard’s Exchange Principle and it says “every contact between a perpetrator and a crime scene leaves a trace."

"A writer called Robert Louis Stevenson once said that ’sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences."

"Sometimes the things that are missing are of far greater importance. In."

"When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, we gave our today."

"As a Swiss writer once said, “We wanted a labor force but human beings came,” and what nobody had foreseen was that those workers would bring their mosques, their holy book, and huge swathes of their culture with them."

"As a Turkish proverb says – it was going to be like digging a well with a needle."

"Shocking as it was, over 45 percent of Arab women couldn’t read or write."

"After all, education is a grab for a better future, no matter how impossible the prospect may seem at the time."

"They fill the bottom with nuts and whatever else monkeys like to eat. In the night, a monkey climbs out of the trees and slips his hand down the long neck. He grabs the sweets and his hand makes a fist. That means it’s too big to get back up the narrow neck and he’s trapped. In the morning the villagers come around and hit him on the head.” He looked at me for a moment. “It’s a Zen story, of course,” he said, smiling again. “The point is – if you want to be free, all you have to do is let go."