The Other Woman Quotes

“It was a crude and unsophisticated country, she thought, always lurching from crisis to crisis, seemingly unaware of the fact its power was fading.”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“Ella era socialista —comunista, incluso—, pero no estaba tan comprometida con la revolución como para viajar en transporte público.”
― Daniel Silva, La otra mujer

“For Rebecca, the world was not a dangerous place spinning rapidly out of control; it was a problem to be managed by men and women of competence and training.”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“the Passat and provide perimeter security, with what, he did not know. Alistair Hughes, MI6’s Vienna Head of Station, had expressly forbidden him to carry a weapon. Keller had a well-deserved reputation for violence; Hughes, for caution. He had a nice life in Vienna—a productive network, long lunches, decent relations with the local service. The last thing he wanted was a problem that would result in him being recalled to a desk at Vauxhall Cross. Just then,”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“Complacency, he had warned her, was an illegal’s greatest enemy,”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“Everything I did, I did as a matter of conscience.”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“Rousseau’s search might prove fruitless. Perhaps”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“Don’t waste time fighting old wars.”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“They really were insufferable, she thought, these pampered millennial snowflakes with their yoga mats and their designer leggings and their contempt for concepts such as hard work and competition. She only wished she’d brought along a packet of L&Bs. One whiff of smoke would have sent them scurrying.”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“in London, was murdered with a cup of polonium-laced tea. In 2006 Britain’s official reaction to the use of a radioactive weapon on its soil was limited to a single extradition request, which the Kremlin gleefully ignored.”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“the Tsar next to her, grinning and preening at his latest triumph over the West. And just who did he think he was fooling with that starched and pressed face of his? Real fascists, thought Charlotte, did not use Botox.”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“He was afraid that if communism collapsed, the Soviet Union would no longer serve as a beacon for those in the West who believed capitalism to be unjust.” “The useful idiots.”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“ubiquitous green-and-white sign.”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“In the post-Soviet era, the KGB was disbanded, renamed, reorganized, and renamed again. Eventually, the basic elements of the old organization were split into two new services: the FSB and the SVR. The FSB handled domestic security and counterintelligence, and took over the KGB’s old central headquarters in Lubyanka Square. The SVR became Russia’s new foreign intelligence service. Headquartered in Yasenevo, it was essentially the old First Chief Directorate of the KGB with a new name.”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“adopted the spare prose of a journalist, with an emphasis on time, date, and place”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman

“the world was not a dangerous place spinning rapidly out of control; it was a problem to be managed by men and women of competence and training.”
― Daniel Silva, The Other Woman