The Killer Collective Quotes

“Men use these words to frighten us, Livia would tell them. To intimidate and paralyze. We need to habituate to what upsets us so we can fight through it. Deny our attackers the weapon of their words. And what was true for the verbal was true, too, for the physical.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“You look like a man who’s acquired some wisdom over the years. Can you tell me, why are women so difficult? I mean, I love them, but why?” The old guy shrugged. “Because they’re people. It’s not women who are difficult. It’s people.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“Checking your six?” he said, still smiling. “I thought you wanted an airport because they’re safe. What is it about me that scares people so much?”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“the young man’s blindness irreparable, his mistakes immutable, the consequences irreversible.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“Medicine isn’t supposed to taste good—that’s what candy is for. Medicine is supposed to make you better.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“The insult was calculated. Whether this guy was an amateur or a professional, he would perceive himself as the latter, and would now be invested in proving it to me. Interrogators call the technique ego down.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“First was the fewer, not less. Now it was the care in avoiding a preposition at the end of a sentence. An educated man, presumably. Precise. Apparently fussy about small-minded rules, perhaps to compensate for a willingness to ignore large ones.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“mono no aware, the sadness of being human,”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light; I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“Do all the people who know me know me better than I know myself?”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“we rarely see what we prefer to overlook.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“Maybe I would ask Dox what he made of it. I’d been reluctant to before, fearful of the accuracy of his insights. But accurate insights might have helped me. Medicine isn’t supposed to taste good—that’s what candy is for. Medicine is supposed to make you better.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“PRAISE FOR BARRY EISLER “A master of narrative-driven fiction enriched for the reader with unexpected twists and turns throughout.” —Midwest Book Review “Eisler is at the top of his game.” —RT Book Reviews “Eisler combines the insouciance of Ian Fleming, the realistic detail of Tom Clancy, the ennui of Graham Greene, and the prose power of John le Carré.” —News-Press “Furious and creative . . . Rain’s combination of quirks and proficiency is the stuff great characters are made of.” —Entertainment Weekly”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“other”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“One of the things Livia pounded home with her students was the dictum Trust your gut. When you felt something was off, you had to believe that feeling, even if you couldn’t articulate the basis. Gavin de Becker had written a great book on the topic—The Gift of Fear.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“What cops call hunches,” Trahan said, “FBI hackers call pattern recognition.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“Men use these words to frighten us, Livia would tell them. To intimidate and paralyze. We need to habituate to what upsets us so we can fight through it. Deny our attackers the weapon of their words.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“left”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“The months and days are the travelers of eternity.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“abattoir,”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“soporific.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“dispositive.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“noisome,”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“antediluvian”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“Sudecon,”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“fait accompli”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“the Condor. “I don’t interest myself in why. I think more often in terms of when. Sometimes where. Always how much.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“wish that I could somehow tell him what I knew now and help him for both our sakes to get it right, and a grief that such a thing was impossible, the young man’s blindness irreparable, his mistakes immutable, the consequences irreversible.”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“divorce was the chemotherapy of marriage, so expensive and toxic that only couples in extremis would attempt it as a cure. And if half of marriages were so cancerous that they justified treatment with the equivalent of chemotherapy, what did that say about the others? How many of the nondivorced had just learned to live with the illness because the cure seemed even worse than the disease?”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective

“smell the sherry”
― Barry Eisler, The Killer Collective