The Marching Season Quotes

“So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life?
Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.”
― Daniel Silva, The Marching Season

“Delaroche took no pleasure from killing, yet it left him with no remorse. He was trained to carry out assassinations with brutal and mechanical swiftness. The quickness with which he killed insulated him from any guilt or remorse. It was as if someone else were performing the act. He was not the murderer; the men who ordered the death were the real killers. Delaroche was just the weapon: the knife, the gun, the blunt object. If he had not carried out the contract, someone else would have”
― Daniel Silva, The Marching Season

“Delaroche killed for two reasons: because he was hired to kill or to protect himself. Maurice Leroux fell into the second category. He had never killed out of anger, nor had he ever killed for revenge. He believed the blood lust for revenge was the most destructive of emotions. He”
― Daniel Silva, The Marching Season

“She was also a gifted liar who had never been saddled with a cumbersome moral compass.”
― Daniel Silva, The Marching Season

“the economy of movement of a battery-powered toy.”
― Daniel Silva, The Marching Season