“I thought the morning would bring change. But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second. A moment. In a single breath, reality as you know it can s...”

“I think youre freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you."Ive been through worse, Bex, I said, joining her on the lower stairs. Way worse.Oh, not the attack. Bex raised her fin...”

“I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew myself. But then again, isn't that a best friend's job?”

“I dont understand hate. Ive seen its power. Ive known its wrath. Ive even felt it coursing through my veins, pushing me on. But I dont know where it comes from or why it lasts, how it can take hold...”

“Liz paced and talked like it was just another test. Another challenge. She was looking at it like an exercise in probability - cause and effect. It's the physics of human nature, and to truly under...”

“We're going to be okay."Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true ...”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”

“And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the...”

“Waiting. Thats always what being a spy comes down to, isnt it?”

“Waiting. That’s always what being a spy comes down to, isn’t it?”