The Night Trade Quotes

“Some people just need killing.”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“He stood for a moment, taking it all in, marveling that people thought hillbillies like him were the ones with the bad taste.”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“Now it was “our purpose,” something she taught her women’s self-defense students to recognize as “forced teaming,” when a person suggests he has something in common with his intended victim to get her to drop her guard.”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“You could only remember your own mistake so as not to repeat it next time.”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“abattoir?”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“imprimatur”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“I know. I get it. Because when I knew but they didn’t know I knew, that was good. But when they knew that I knew but I didn’t know they knew, that was bad. But now that I know they know that I know, and they don’t know it, it’s good again.”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“when fighting monsters, you yourself do”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“In the scope of the universe, and the arc of justice, my life is of little consequence.”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“A turtle doesn’t get up on a bookshelf by itself,”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“know. I get it. Because when I knew but they didn’t know I knew, that was good. But when they knew that I knew but I didn’t know they knew, that was bad. But now that I know they know that I know, and they don’t know it, it’s good again.”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade

“But she was also uneasy. She remembered when she’d been in college and had come across the Nietzsche quote: Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.”
― Barry Eisler, The Night Trade