The Good Assassin Quotes

“I am destined to live my life with a heart that yearns for a moment I didn’t seize.”
― Paul Vidich, The Good Assassin

“Here in Cuba death can be a temporary matter.”
― Paul Vidich, The Good Assassin

“He dressed quickly, Colt pistol stuffed under his belt, ears alert to the several voices below. When he got to the kitchen he found the breakfast table abandoned after being half set, a sudden interruption of the morning routine. The morning paper lay on the table with its headline of the latest news of the war. He glanced at the first paragraph, but shifted his attention to people scurrying in the courtyard. He looked through the kitchen, through the open library doors, and beyond to the swimming pool. The old caretaker had a lawn rake that he carefully extended in long reaching motions onto the surface of the water. There was something floating in the middle of the pool. On second glance, Mueller saw that it was a body. Mueller made his way through”
― Paul Vidich, The Good Assassin

“She wears ambition like a curse.”
― Paul Vidich, The Good Assassin

“They talked in the way one does late at night, prisoners of the hour. Reticence vanquished by elastic time.”
― Paul Vidich, The Good Assassin

“Don’t let your imagination take you to a place where we’ll have to lie to each other.”
― Paul Vidich, The Good Assassin

“Hemingway is there in Finca Vigía. Find out what he thinks of Castro. He’s a man dedicated to his art and has an equivalent dedication to everything he does,”
― Paul Vidich, The Good Assassin

“He was of a class of deeply optimistic men, Mueller knew, and he knew this because he recognized himself in Graham, who had lived through World War II, who believed in the power of an idea – who believed that any challenge could be overcome by will power, and by money, intellect, and when necessary, covert action.”
― Paul Vidich, The Good Assassin

“ninth.”
― Paul Vidich, The Good Assassin