“Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.” — Daniel Silva Artist Copy Share Image
“life is just as long as the time it takes to pass by a window.” — Daniel Silva Life Copy Share Image
“Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. —HONORÉ DE BALZAC” — Daniel Silva Balzac Copy Share Image
“Where is he?” “Five miles due west of Ajaccio.” The don smiled. “Or thereabouts.” “Alive one hour,” said Keller, quoting a Corsican… — Daniel Silva Keller 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
“ 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
“The owner doesn’t ask questions about where the painting has been. He’s just happy to have it hanging on his wall again.” — Daniel Silva Artist Copy Share Image
So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please. — Daniel Silva Alcohol Copy Share Image
“No one intervened—hardly surprising, thought Rosner, for intervention would have been intolerant—and no one thought to comfort him as he lay dying.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“Megiddo, the hillock where, according to the Book of Revelation, Christ and Satan would wage a climactic duel that would bring about… — Daniel Silva Book of revelation 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
“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 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
“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
“To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept… — Daniel Silva Basket Case Copy Share Image
“The CIA program known as “extraordinary rendition,” the practice of clandestinely transferring suspected terrorists from one country to another for the purposes… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t it Moses who dispatched a team of agents to spy out the land of Canaan?” “History’s first intelligence failure,” said Gabriel.… — Daniel Silva Israel Copy Share Image
“To be honest with you, I’ve always felt a little Jewish.” “You have an aversion to shellfish and German opera?” “I was… — Daniel Silva Jewish 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
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
“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
“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
“Wasting the valuable time of others, thought Rousseau, was a bureaucrat’s ultimate revenge.” — Daniel Silva Revenge 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
“It was a technique as old as the bazaar, the willingness to walk away from a deal.” — Daniel Silva Negotiation 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