Interrogations Quotes

“My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.”
― Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce

“The white policeman was a man who gave an impression of heaviness. It wasn't that he was fat, but he sagged as if with a moral or psychic burden; his shoulders sagged, his eyes sagged, his suit sagged and he sat sagged in his chair, as if his disappointments with the world were bearing down on him. He made it clear that Shahid was one of these disappointments.”
― John Lanchester, Capital

“Our rival interrogation team is the Pubyok, named after the "floating wall" defenders that saved Pyongyang from invaders in 1136. There are only a dozen or so left, old men with silver crewcuts who walk in a row like a wall and truly believe they can float, stealthy as ghosts, from one citizen to the next, interrogating them as the wind interrogates the leaves.”
― Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

“something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Tell me what you know, witch, or I shall burn you at the stake!”

Belinda didn’t have time to ask “What the unholy f#$ did you just say to me?” before the monk’s cousin was there, grabbing the woman’s arm and dragging her kin off a few feet.

“What are you doing?” the cousin demanded. “What you told me to. You said interrogate her as I’d been trained. That’s how monks interrogate witches.”

“Or you could ask her your questions like a normal person. That’s always an option.”

“I guess . . . although this seems faster.”

“Does it really?”

The monk rolled her eyes. “Fine. I’ll ask her nicely.”I

“Again with the sarcasm”
― G.A. Aiken, The Blacksmith Queen

“Don’t put yore fingers in my nose no more, Mister — that hurts!”
― Charles Willeford, Deliver Me from Dallas