79 Quotes by Terry Hayes

"I was so engrossed by the idea that it took me a moment to register that the drivers behind were laying on their horns and I had a green. I hit the gas, rummaged one-handed through the files Cumali had given me, found a note to the medical examiner with her mobile number attached to it, and pulled out my cell phone. I was halfway through dialing when I realized that a woman with a six-year-old child might not appreciate being woken, and, anyway, what was she going to do that late at night?"

"Dark omens or not, life has a way of cornering us. A person either stands up or he doesn’t."

"Within hours, large crowds were streaming into the car park and by the time a twelve-year-old boy – the Saracen’s best friend – drove past with his father he knew exactly what it meant. It was a Friday – the Muslim day of rest – and the traffic was terrible, so it took the kid over an hour to get home. He immediately grabbed his bicycle and rode eight miles to tell his friend what he had seen."

"That was the part of the epic story about coming back from the dead, being restored to life. “He is risen,” it says. He is risen."

"I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty."

"Is her husband a cop too? That’s the way it usually works in."

"Saint Mark, chapter 16, verse 6."

"He decided that, despite the swelling and purple bruises, neither my ribs nor my kneecap were broken. Fractured, maybe, but there was no way of telling without an X-ray. ‘Feel like a drive to the hospital in Milas?’ he."

"If you take the bomb out of it, August 6th was probably a nice day in Hiroshima."

"I had got up in the morning and, by the time I was ready for bed, it was a different planet: the world doesn’t change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back."