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The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne, #2) The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
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“The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“Opportunities will present themselves. Recognize them, act on them.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“You know, Mr. Webb, you have two commands you use with irritating frequency. 'Move' and 'Let's go.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“He wasn't smart enough to see it, said Jason Bourne. He couldn't think geometrically.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...Delta is for Charlie and Charlie is for Cain”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“You really are one son of a bitch, you son of a bitch.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“He may be a scholar, but he’s first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“Alex, drunk or sober, made no distinction between the hours of day and night, nor did the operations he knew so well, for there was no night and day where his work was concerned. There was only the flat light of fluorescent tubes in offices that never closed.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“She’s one of the most persuasive people I’ve ever met.” “She has to be,” replied the ambassador, leaning back in his chair. “She forced a man with no identity, with overwhelming feelings of guilt, to look into himself and walk out of the tunnels of his own confusion. No easy task.…”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“He studied the weather reports. Opportunities present themselves. You grab them.” “And this is what you must do, Delta! Think like him, be him! It is our chance!”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“The scenario,” repeated Jason Bourne. “The more complicated it gets, the simpler it appears.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“My God, that's what you want! You want to push the world to the brink, force it to choose between annihilation and survival! That's how you think you'll get what you want, that the choice of survival will win out!”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“But with both of them behind him, he was brushing away the swirling clouds and finding the sun again.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy
“When he could handle it himself, he had to. It was his contract with himself.”
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy