The Middleman Quotes

“That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

“anyone who tells you there’s one reason for what they do is a liar.”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

“Tragedy plus time isn’t comedy,”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

“The left and right give lip service to the dialectic. You talk things out, argue them, and the answers will float to the surface.”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

“It had been a five-year exercise in self-immolation.”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

“this was why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

“Have some faith in your government,” Barnes told her. “We march stupidly into countries we don’t understand; we sit back as our cities are decimated by natural disasters; and we let our schools go quietly to shit—despite these things, one thing we’re pretty good at is finding people who don’t want to be found.”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

“She would push and push on that one question until a crack formed in the wall of her ignorance.”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

“It was what you did when you resurfaced after a year undercover: You hooked your wagon to the repetitions of domesticity.”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

“What they got, really, was a cross-section of American paranoia, of hidden prejudices rising to the surface. Whatever diverged from the mainstream was suspect.”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

“If no one out there understands Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman. —BILLY BRAGG, “WAITING FOR THE GREAT LEAP FORWARDS”
― Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman