“For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw, he attended ...”

“But the world doesn't run on logic, it runs on the seven deadly sins and the weather. - Alan Furst; Red Gold”

“I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.”

“We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when i...”

“For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.”

“Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.”

“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?”

“Sara, we have to go," she whispers, even though my dad isn't there to hear her. She's not crying. She's calm. Matter-of-fact. As if she's asking me whether I want mayo or mustard on my sandwich. Ex...”

“The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with fear, if all we have is what lies here, this lonely world, this troubled place, then cold dead s...”

“It is said that in death, all things become clear.”