The Cairo Affair Quotes

“God in His infinite wisdom Did not make me very wise— So when my actions are stupid They hardly take God by surprise”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Cairo Affair

“Jasenovac concentration camp, which had been the largest “place of extermination” in fascist Croatia during the Second World War. “No one know exact number, but some say a million murdered there. They killing Jews and Gypsies, but most was Serbs.”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Cairo Affair

“Later, once they had returned to Boston and gained some perspective, she would see that this was part and parcel of extremist thought the world over: the heaping on of selective trivia that only a computer could fact-check in real time, the raw accumulation of unverifiable anecdote that could create a new reality.”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Cairo Affair

“had to blink in pain. “What is”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Cairo Affair

“What do you plan to do that others cannot do better?”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Cairo Affair

“anywhere. There could be no new world, John”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Cairo Affair