The Other Side of Silence Quotes

“Winter came early that year. Snow filled the gray December air like fragments of torn-up hope”
― Philip Kerr, The Other Side of Silence

“So I went back into the bar and had the barman make me an ice-cold gimlet with the good stuff—the 57 percent Plymouth Navy Strength gin they give the sailors in nuclear submarines—just to help the four weaker ones I’d already drunk at La Voile d’Or to take the strain.”
― Philip Kerr, The Other Side of Silence

“I dislike a man who’s not precise about what he wants to drink,” said Maugham. “You can’t rely on a fellow who’s vague about his favorite tipple. If he’s not precise about something he’s going to drink then it’s clear he’s not going to be precise about anything.”
― Philip Kerr, The Other Side of Silence

“Revenge is personal. An act of passion. An injury is revenged. But I think vengeance is about justice. That’s something very different. Crimes are avenged, don’t you think so?”
― Philip Kerr, The Other Side of Silence

“Not since murder became the continuation of politics by other means.”
― Philip Kerr, The Other Side of Silence

“thought that was the whole idea of the German Reformation. To abolish priestly intercession.”
― Philip Kerr, The Other Side of Silence