“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC” — Daniel Silva Balzac Copy Share Image
“life is just as long as the time it takes to pass by a window.” — Daniel Silva Life Copy Share Image
The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation. — Daniel Silva Chance Copy Share Image
“I suppose it’s true what they say. The spouse is always the last to know.” — Daniel Silva Marriage Copy Share Image
“Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.” — Daniel Silva Artist Copy Share Image
“ Look at the snow, the woman was saying to the child. The snow absolves Vienna of its sins. The snow falls… — Daniel Silva Absolution Copy Share Image
“And your new employers?” asked the don. “Every bed has lice,” said Keller. “Only the spoon,” replied the don, “knows the pot’s… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“He looked older, harder, perhaps wiser. The Middle East was like that. It turned hope to despair, idealists into Machiavellians.” — Daniel Silva Middle east Copy Share Image
Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert. — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“We dare to fight back, and the terrorists accuse us of being the real terrorists.” “It’s their secret weapon, Mikhail. Get used… — Daniel Silva Israel Copy Share Image
“Vicary had decided he wanted to contribute. He wanted to do something instead of watching the world through his well-guarded window.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“Wasting the valuable time of others, thought Rousseau, was a bureaucrat’s ultimate revenge.” — Daniel Silva Revenge Copy Share Image
“When you're dealing with Switzerland, Mr. Allon, it's best to keep one thing in mind. Switzerland is not a real country. It's… — Daniel Silva Business Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real… — Daniel Silva Allies Copy Share Image
“After more than five years, some agents might be tempted to become complacent. Catherine would never become complacent. It was one of… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“The notion that modern England might not be a cultural paradise appeared to come as a shock to Brady Boswell. He was… — Daniel Silva United kingdom Copy Share Image
I loved September 12th. I loved the way - it's awful but, boy, did I love that day when we all came… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“The sky was a dome of pale blue streaked with alabaster. Crossing the Stephansplatz, he was nearly toppled by the wind. It… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and… — Daniel Silva Art Copy Share Image
“I can be whoever you want me to be: CIA, FBI, DIA, an agency so fucking secret you've never heard of it… — Daniel Silva Secret Copy Share Image
“You know where everything is. You practically live here now.” Shamron muttered something in Polish about the ingratitude” — Daniel Silva Gratitude Copy Share Image
“It was a technique as old as the bazaar, the willingness to walk away from a deal.” — Daniel Silva Negotiation Copy Share Image
“But that’s the beauty of American cable news, darling. It doesn’t have to be credible. It just has to be entertaining.” — Daniel Silva Beauty Copy Share Image
“The secrets of survivors are not easily surrendered. They are locked away behind barricaded doors and accessed at great risk to those… — Daniel Silva Survivors Copy Share Image
“Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“We don’t always get to choose our assets, he reminded himself. Sometimes they choose us.” — Daniel Silva Choice Copy Share Image
“I suppose I needed to share it with her. I suppose I needed someone to forgive me.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. — Daniel Silva Books Copy Share Image
“The nexus between crime and radical Islam is one of the most disturbing emerging trends confronting U.S. and Western European counterterrorism officials.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“more evil has been carried out in the name of religion than any other force in human history.” — Daniel Silva Evil Copy Share Image
