Elly Conway > Quotes

“sometimes the tools we need to fix ourselves are inside us the whole time.”
― Elly Conway, Argylle

“There is an uneasy moment most military personnel recognize, when they come too close to ‘the enemy’ and what was a homogeneous mass breaks apart, like cells pulling away under a microscope, revealing that all along it was made up of individual humans just like them.”
― Elly Conway, Argylle

“The world is too wonderful not to write it all down.”
― Elly Conway, Argylle

“When you’re faced with a choice, pick the option that scares you most.”
― Elly Conway, Argylle

“I prefer edgy. Mean. The kind you look at and kinda know they have strings of meat between their teeth left over from lunchbreak.”
― Elly Conway, Argylle

“Loving is easy. It’s forgiveness that’s the hard thing.”
― Elly Conway, Argylle

“And yet you decided your calling was the CIA? What is it you think we do here, son? Bake cookies?”
― Elly Conway, Argylle

“I was crapping myself, man, but you know you should always do the thing that frightens you.”
― Elly Conway, Argylle

“the Aegean Sea is a vast swathe of inky velvet studded with diamond crystals”
― Elly Conway, Argylle

“There are definite advantages to being a middle-aged woman, society's least visible demographic, at the top of the foremost secret service in the world. If no one even sees you, how could they ever suspect you of holding one of the most powerful positions on the planet?”
― Elly Conway, Argylle

“You think you know a person because you've gleaned a bunch of facts about where they came from or who their family is, but the tissue of the person id made up of so much more than that, all the tiny fibres of our lives that weave themselves into a pattern that is unique.”
― Elly Conway, Argylle

“They have been together thirty-two years. No children – it didn’t happen for them – and the widespread assumption that she sacrificed motherhood for her career brings its own special pain. But they have a companionship that suits them.”
― Elly Conway, Argylle