Inside Out Quotes

“no matter the pain or shock or confusion, never stop moving. Never give them a stationary target.”
― Barry Eisler, Inside Out

“There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work.                            —Irving Kristol”
― Barry Eisler, Inside Out

“the neighborhood was quiet, its colonial houses decaying in stoic dignity beneath the swaying palm trees.”
― Barry Eisler, Inside Out

“Working out always took the edge off when he was feeling paranoid.”
― Barry Eisler, Inside Out

“The trick was to assume the worst and act accordingly.”
― Barry Eisler, Inside Out

“He imagined a frog in a pot, the water getting gradually warmer, the frog never noticing any of it. He imagined people telling themselves they would never be part of something corrupt, then telling themselves they would only be part of it to make it better, then telling themselves, hey, the thing wasn’t corrupt in the first place, it was just the way of the world, they’d been naïve before and now they were savvy.”
― Barry Eisler, Inside Out

“told you, we’re rebuilding. There’s you, there’s Larison, I hope, and there are a few others. And there are two in particular I want you to track down.” “Who?” “A former marine sniper, goes by the name Dox, is one.” “Who’s the other?” Hort took a sip of wine. “The same man who taught me about honne and tatemae. A half-Japanese former soldier gone freelance, named Rain. John”
― Barry Eisler, Inside Out

“You can’t do that shit to your own kind. They have to be turned into the other first. Dehumanized.”
― Barry Eisler, Inside Out

“to pain,”
― Barry Eisler, Inside Out