Portrait of an Unknown Woman Quotes

“fake forgery?”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“Christopher lit a Marlboro. “Have you given any thought to how you’re going to make your approach?” “To Françoise Vionnet? I thought I’d start with bonjour and hope for the best.” “How cunning.” “Maybe I’ll tell her I was sent by a mystical Corsican woman who cured me of the occhju. Or better yet, I’ll say that I’m a friend of the Corsican organized crime figure she hired to kill a Spanish art dealer.” “That should win her over.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“paintings”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“At the end of many disasters,” said Don Orsati, reciting a Corsican proverb, “there is always an Italian. But your lovely wife is definitely the exception to the rule.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“At seven fifteen the following evening, Christopher Keller was seated at a waterfront café in the Corsican port of Ajaccio, an empty wineglass on the table before him, a freshly lit Marlboro burning between the first and second fingers of his sledgehammer right hand. He wore a pale gray suit by Richard Anderson of Savile Row, an open-neck white dress shirt, and handmade oxford shoes. His hair was sun-bleached, his skin was taut and dark, his eyes were bright blue. The notch in the center of his thick chin looked as though it had been cleaved with a chisel.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“If someone is woke, it means they care about issues involving racial intolerance and societal injustice.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“But fortunately they sent Inspector Clouseau.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“At the end of many disasters,' said Don Orsati, reciting a Corsican proverb, 'there is always an Italian.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“Grotesque displays of wealth are now the de rigueur. - Sarah Bancroft”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“All the blackmailers and extortionists I’ve ever met have impeccable manners. - Julian Isherwood”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“FBI officer”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“You know what they say about assassinations, Don Orsati. The important thing is not who fired the shot but who paid for the bullet.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“For a man of the secret world, you have a rather famous face.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“As for forgiveness, Don Orsati is unfamiliar with the word.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“Do with him what you will. I’m not going to cry over a little spilled blood. Just make certain none of it splashes on me.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“I was in my late thirties at the time, and Phillip was looking for someone a bit younger. When he met lovely Lindsay Morgan, a yoga enthusiast and model twelve years my junior, he dropped me like an underperforming stock.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“five-hundred-gram gold ingots.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“inner-office”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“The art market is totally unregulated. Prices are arbitrary, quality control is virtually nonexistent, and most paintings change hands under conditions of total secrecy.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“Or, as Durand liked to describe it, he managed the acquisition of paintings that were not technically for sale.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“hundred unspent British pounds.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman

“One hand washes the other, and both hands wash the face.” “A very old Jewish proverb.”
― Daniel Silva, Portrait of an Unknown Woman