Quotes About Suspicion

Information secured after the end of hostilities supports our surmise that some Abwehr officials willfully shut their eyes to suspicions about their agents. They thought it better for selfish reasons to have corrupt or disloyal agents than to have no agents at all.

He needs guilty men. So he has found men who are guilty. Though perhaps not guilty as charged.

Intrigue feeds on itself; conspiracies have neither mother nor father, and yet they thrive: the only thing to know is that no one knows anything. Though

but will also assuage the fears of the king, who distrusts novelty, and German novelty above all.

Avery says, 'This custody is for your protection.' 'You think it is I who needs protection? What about Cromwell here? Perhaps we should all take each other into custody?

This custody is for your protection.' 'You think it is I who needs protection? What about Cromwell here? Perhaps we should all take each other into custody?

And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at Valmy and in a halfdozen actions since. In the National Assembly he was a liberal; now he is a republican. Isn't it then logical that he should be thrown into gaol, July 1, on suspicion of passing military secrets to the enemy?

This was the place where I had met and talked with Norio Suzuki two weeks before. Just two days earlier a message from Suzuki asking me to meet him here again had been left in the message box we had agreed on, and I had come. I was still afraid it might be a trap. If it was, the enemy might be waiting for me on the hill.

Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.

Balekin and Orlagh are planning your murder," I say flustered. "Yes," he says lazily. "So why did I wake at all?

For a moment," he says, "I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me." I make a face at him. "And what made you decide it wasn't?" He grins up at me. "They missed.

Is something going on?" - Celia "No!" Aaron and Jasper said at the same time. "Sure, that's not suspicious or anything.

That's really paranoid," I say admiringly. "I'm going with that.

You think a lizard is trying to kill me? And he faked a note from Celia? - Call

Alex is the one... He's the spy. - Call

I only hope he doesn't taste the bitterness of poison on my lips.

I guess he's used to suspicious people with crappy tempers. Or maybe I've never seemed as normal as I thought.

Maybe like the bat in the birdcage, Gavriel had been waiting for dark, waiting to get out of the chains, drink Aidan's blood, and escape. But when she showed up, he figured he could use them for a ride through daylight, so long as he seemed harmless enough to need saving. A chill crept up her spine.

His eyes narrow on the blood, and he points the wooden stick at me. 'You seem to have cut yourself.' I wonder if he's surprised that I'm alive. I wonder if he watched the tower the whole time during his luncheon, waiting for the amusing spectacle of me jumping to my death. I take the knife out from under my tunic and show it to him, stained a flinty red. I smile. 'I could cut you, too.

For a moment,'' he says, ''I wondered if it wasn't you shooting bolts at me.'' I make a face at him. ''And what made you decide it wasn't? He grins up at me. ''They missed.

I poisoned you. Don't worry. It was a small dose. You'll live." "The cups of wine," he says. "But how did you know which one I would choose?" "I didn't," I tell him, thinking that he'll be at least a little pleased by the answer, despite himself. It is the kind of strategy he likes best. "I poisoned them both.

his kindness was jarring and made me wonder what he wanted in return for it. I was used to tricks, to games.

There is no more trusting in women.

The Americans' happy smiles also made us nervous. This is not what it is supposed to be like. Something is wrong here. They are our enemies. Behind those smiling faces will be a hidden agenda. I'll find out what it is soon, I said to myself.