Sylvia Day Quotes

Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they're being followed.

If that comes up, I'll just confuse them.

I've been under security protection since 1978.

I can't set one foot out of my house or anywhere in the world without security.

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

When I travel officially... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suffocating. But I am protected everywhere.

Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'

I have already applied to the Home Ministry for security. So far, I have got nothing. For security, I am staying underground.

I don't have a battery of agents to surround me in a cocoon.

I run my routes like a crossover dribble. It's about taking angles, faking one way but going the other, and being savvy. And then, instead of running to the basket, I'm running away from the defender.

I do not have body doubles like Saddam Hussein had.

In 'A Scanner Darkly,' as in 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,' all intersubjective relations devolve into webs of suspicion and betrayal.

Former CIA employee Joseph Weisberg's 'An Ordinary Spy' may attract attention for how much it redacts - whether by authorial choice or by CIA design - but its power comes from the growing frustration Weisberg's fictional alter ego feels at a system designed to betray seeming innocents in the most casual and cruel manner possible.

I've guarded a lot of people.

Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique

The best hiding spots are not the most hidden; they're merely the least searched.

Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought.

She stopped at the desk and held up a can for his view. "This looks like an ordinary hairspray can, right?" "Of course." he said though he had no idea what hairspray was.

Tell the Queen that there's been a robin red-breast hanging about Kotir grounds. It flies down low and vanishes near the floor. Cludd thinks it might be something to do with those woodlanders. Now, I'm to say nothing to Fortunata or Ashleg... 'I must tell the Queen that a robin has seen Cludd hanging about. No, that's not right. I must tellt he robin taht Cludd has been hanging the Queen.

That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other.

I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded."

It wouldn't be bad to have the Secret Service keeping an eye on my teenage daughter. I personally am not troubled by the fact that there would be a couple of big guys with earpieces beside her, just in case.