Quotes from Robert Ludlum

She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been—had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not.

REST IS THE BEST WEAPON..BATTLES WON AND LOST ((page 209 )) JACKAL CHALLENGING BOURNE : Paris, Jason Bourne! Paris if you dare! Or shall it be a minor university in Maine. Dr,Webb? ((page 276))... JACKALS WARNING, IN PRINTED WORDS IN A BLACK BUTCHER'S PENCIL ((at an country restaurant Epernon, Paris )) The trees of Tannenbaum will burn and children will be the kindling. Sleep well Jason Bourne

Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war.

There were more preposterous vicissitudes in life than a single philosophy could conjure.

The slightest alteration can cause dramatic changes. That's what happened to you. The damage was physical. It's as though blocks were rearranged, the physical structure no longer what it was.

It's not the meek who are inheriting the earth, Jason, it's the corruptors

You appear to be a mass of contradictions; there's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive.

Two people were not one

Nothing is so convincing as someone who's a bewildered injured party and lets everybody know it.

I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more.

One balks, then agrees, then balks again only to agree again; that is the way one learns things.

Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed.

The easiest thing in the world is to convince yourself that you're right. As one grows old it is easier still.

That's not a man who's either afraid or guilty.

He may be a scholar, but he's first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain

Because the physical conduits that permit and transmit those memories have been altered. Physically rearranged to the point where they no longer function as they once did. For all intents and purposes, they've been destroyed.

will not risk the patrol boats. The Surete has squadrons all

We're a couple of ciphers who got pushed around. We don't know what happened; just that we don't like it.

Never trust a leader who proclaims himself a leader before anyone else does.

Reputations were made quickly over the green felt tables ? with the roll of the dice or a turn of a card.

I don't like your eyes. They belong on a dead fish.

the connecting fibers of the corpus callosum;