Quotes About Intrigue

there was just one person in the world who knew the full details of both the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence and the emerging Sykes-Picot compact, and who might have grasped the extent to which Arab, French, and British goals in the region had now been set on a collision course: Mark Sykes.

An amazing thing about our digital age is that the person next to you at Starbucks might just be hacking into a Swiss bank or launching multiwarhead nuclear missiles continents away.

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.

You're my favorite complication.

The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games—" "—is Locke Lamora—

Ah," said Jean, "but when a woman has your heart, she doesn't have poor moods. Only interesting moods … and more interesting moods.

Nervy little Shades' Hill purse-clutcher, thinking you can keep me in the dark. What plan?" "The plan to steal a corpse." "Ahem. Anything else you'd like to tell me about it?" "It's brilliant.

Oh gods, Jean. Take a false name wherever we end up. Tavrin Callas is good. Let the bastard pop up all over the place.

I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?" "I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.

Live snakes? ' said one of the scribes. 'You mean-' 'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up.

After all, poison is only contagious at dinner parties.

Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.

Let us speak behind our hands, lest our lips be read as the book of our designs, and let us find some place where only gods and rats may hear our words aloud.

Belay this. We don't have to decide anything now. Just...think on what I said. I didn't bring you in here for negotiations." "What did you bring me here for?" "Noise," she whispered, starting to pull his tunic off. "Lots and lots of noise.

The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games—" "—is Locke Lamora—" "—because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons—" "—and fifty thousand cheering spectators.

Remember how she joked about twenty armed people in the next room?" said Jean with a sigh. He set down the book he'd been reading. "There were twenty armed men in the next room.

Wicked sisters,' said Jean, as he let the hatchets fall out of his right robe sleeve and into his hand, 'I'd like you to meet the Wicked Sisters.

So now we've got Requin thinking that Stragos is out to get him. I've never helped precipitate a civil war before. This should be fun.

The real magic of the Sinspire was woven from its capricious exclusivity; deny something to enough people and sooner or later it will grow a mystique as thick as fog.

deny something to enough people and sooner or later it will grow a mystique as thick as fog.

Beats thinking about whatever's waiting in Stonewall.

When a room at the CIA headquarters is secret, a secret from people who spend their lives creating and breaking secrets, that's some pretty serious black-ops shit.

My business is to know things, especially things which I am not supposed to know.