Simple Kill Quotes

“You know what happens to very careful people?” ​“I know you’re going to tell me.” ​“Nothing, Jane. Nothing happens to very careful people. And then they die, with nothing ever having happened to them.”
― Blake Banner, Simple Kill

“Improvising, as he was always saying, was how soldiers got killed. The more you train, the more you prepare and rehearse, the more second nature your plan becomes, the more naturally it flows and the easier it becomes to improvise if you absolutely have to. ​Improvise without adequate preparation, and the chances are you are a walking dead man. ​That was me, Z, the walking dead man.”
― Blake Banner, Simple Kill

“Ahead the water was still and black. Seagulls circled overhead, screaming hoarse laments to the sky.”
― Blake Banner, Simple Kill

“I wandered over to the glass table and stared at it for a while. I guess you had to be Swedish to create something so lacking in any kind of character, and still manage to make it ugly. I had nothing against Sweden or the Swedish people. It is a very beautiful country with very beautiful people. But I always had this suspicion that if the Illuminati existed, as Robert Shea and Anton Wilson described them, their headquarters would be in Sweden, at IKEA.”
― Blake Banner, Simple Kill

“the expression of someone who is pretty sure he is much smarter than you think he is.”
― Blake Banner, Simple Kill