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“We're going to be okay."Here's the thing about being a spy: sometimes all you have are your lies. They protect your cover and keep your secrets, and right then I needed to believe that it was true even when all the facts said otherwise.”

“So the I.F. is spying on Earth.""Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard.""Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy.”

“Good neighbors always spy on you to make sure you are doing well.”

“He hated having to look for a new girl, a new spy to add to his band of fallen women. Yes, it was an opportunity to spare her before her ruin could be known, but a deep part of him hurt for the women in his employ and what they’d all endured.”

“For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw, he attended early mass, at a small church near the apartment, once or twice a month, confessing to his vocational sins – duplicity, for example – in the oblique forms provided by Catholic protocol. He’d grown up an untroubled believer, but the war had put an end to that. What God could permit such misery and slaughter? But, in time, he had found consolation in a God beyond understanding and prayed for those he’d lost, for those he loved, and for an end to evil in the world.” ― Alan Furst, The Spies of Warsaw”

“Governments don't spy on you for your protection, they spy on you to see if you're planning a revolt.”

“Waiting. That’s always what being a spy comes down to, isn’t it?”

“A spy novel?” Dagmar asked. “You two are talking about a spy nov”

“I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.”

“A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.”