Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.
John le CarréThere was a sweetness in my voice I found nauseating. I made a note to myself never to have children. Or at least not helpless children.
Tod GoldbergTag: spy burn-notice
What's your name, son?' Sam said. The man looked to be about Sam's age, but Sam always thought calling people 'son' immediately gave the air of imperial authority and opened the door for spanking if need be.
Tod GoldbergTag: funny comedy spy burn-notice
The room fell silent. I frankly didn't know what I was going to do to help Eduardo, but I had the sense that he was right- no one else could help him, and without help, all that he'd done would crumble.
Plus, I like being called his only hope. I felt like Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Tag: humor funny star-wars spy jedi leia
Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.
Tod GoldbergTag: prison movies tv spy tv-show burn-notice
Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.
Tod GoldbergTag: alcohol spy drink tv-show burn-notice pruno
Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.
Howard TaylerTag: humour vocabulary spy espionage
Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.
James MorcanTag: fiction conspiracy political thriller democrats republicans spy espionage republican-party-united-states
I was a tongue, a gazette. The bearer of "the truth of the whispers."
I knew of hollowed books, trunks with false bottoms, and the meanders of secret corridors. I knew how to open hidden drawers in your escritoire, how to unseal your letter and make you think no one had touched it. If I had been in your room, I left the hair around your lock the way you had tied it. If you trusted the silence of the night, I had overheard your secrets.
Tag: spy
This is a war," Lemas replied. "It's graphic and unpleasant because it's fought on a tiny scale, at close range; fought with a wastage of innocent life sometimes, I admit. But it's nothing, nothing at all besides other wars - the last or the next.
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