The English Girl Quotes

“Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“To be honest with you, I’ve always felt a little Jewish.” “You have an aversion to shellfish and German opera?” “I was speaking in a spiritual sense.” “You’re a professional assassin, Keller.”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death. —Corsican proverb”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“Welcome to the post-American world, Ari.” “Which is why I think we’re foolish to leave our security in their hands.”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“Age had given him the ability to at least see his own shortcomings, even if it had robbed him of the time needed to remedy them.”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“Shamron nodded in agreement. Age had given him the ability to at least see his own shortcomings, even if it had robbed him of the time needed to remedy them.”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“They arrived in Copenhagen aboard private jets and roared through its quaint streets in armored limousines powered by internal combustion engines. Perhaps one day the oil would run out and the planet would grow too hot to sustain human life. But for now at least, the extractors of fossil fuels still reigned supreme.”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death - Corsican proverb”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“We believe that a career without scandal is not a proper career at all. - Gabriel Allon”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“He was no longer in Russia, he thought. He was in a tsarist dreamland, imported from the West and built by terrorized peasants. Florence called to him from the facades of the Baroque palaces, and, crossing the Moyka River, he dreamed of Venice. He wondered how many bodies lay beneath the ice. Thousands, he thought. Tens of thousands. No other city in the world concealed the horrors of its past more beautifully than St. Petersburg.”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“The great Ari Shamron was eternal, but the vessel in which his spirit resided would not last forever.”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“Thirty-three,” said Shamron. “And let’s hope no one else was”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“face she could scarcely recall, the alcoholic brother who’d never worked a day in his life—but everything”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“dreadful”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl

“You know where everything is. You practically live here now.” Shamron muttered something in Polish about the ingratitude”
― Daniel Silva, The English Girl