Quotes from Daniel Silva

I've always found it best to avoid the truth. It invariably leads to unnecessary complications. - Gabriel Allon

Nearly one hundred thousand luxury British properties were held by secret owners

who has two women loses his soul. But he who has two homes loses his mind.

Or, as Durand liked to describe it, he managed the acquisition of paintings that were not technically for sale.

suicide vest.

ultimately life was an elaborate game of providence and probability.

I was in my late thirties at the time, and Phillip was looking for someone a bit younger. When he met lovely Lindsay Morgan, a yoga enthusiast and model twelve years my junior, he dropped me like an underperforming stock.

veil that hides the future from us is woven by an angel of mercy. Unfortunately, there's no veil that can shield us from our past. It's filled with ghosts. The ghosts of loved ones. The ghosts of enemies. They're with us always. They're here with us now.

Why did he kill my mother and sisters, Gabriel? Was it because we stole his land? Was it because we were occupiers? No, it was because we wanted to make peace. If I hate them, you'll forgive me. If I beg you to show Khaled no mercy, you'll grant me leniency for my crimes. I'm Dina Sarid, the avenged remnant. I'm the sixth million. And if Khaled comes here tonight, don't you dare let him get on that bus."     Lev

in London, was murdered with a cup of polonium-laced tea. In 2006 Britain's official reaction to the use of a radioactive weapon on its soil was limited to a single extradition request, which the Kremlin gleefully ignored.

the gentle melancholia that afflicts country people when the warm weather is ending.

fled East Berlin. They had made

I think I liked you better when you were a contract killer.

Computer files are a bit like sin, Excellency. They can be absolved, but they never really go away. - Gabriel Allon

Our mistakes always come back to haunt us. And eventually all debts come due.

Wasting the valuable time of others, thought Rousseau, was a bureaucrat's ultimate revenge.

Rousseau's search might prove fruitless. Perhaps

a recitation of the Lord's Prayer. "And may you grant us the strength and determination to complete our

who famously dismissed the clientele of the Hôtel Grand Courchevel as "the elderly and their parents.

For every terrorist we kill, there's another boy waiting to step forward and pick up the stone or the gun. They're like shark's teeth: break one and another will rise in it's place.

I've always found it best to avoid the truth. It invariably leads to unnecessary complications.

What's wrong with my gun?" "It's rather small, Mr. Bond.

As the West takes a budget ax to its defenses, the Red Army is modernizing at a furious pace. Putin has spoken openly about the use of tactical nuclear weapons to preserve his gains.

life is just as long as the time it takes to pass by a window.