Dan Fesperman > Quotes

“In Jerusalem, belief as a form of aggression achieved near perfection. Whether you went deep in the earth or climbed the highest hill, someone's faith would track you down, catch you in its sights, and demand that you choose sides.”
― Dan Fesperman, The Amateur Spy

“But such niggling distractions on the periphery matter little once you’ve set your sights so squarely on what you want most. By”
― Dan Fesperman, The Letter Writer

“Because some people never grow up, or not in a way that allows them to develop the courage of their convictions.”
― Dan Fesperman, The Arms Maker of Berlin

“History is a living entity. Not just because of its survivors, and the stories they have to tell, but because of its enduring power to hurt and to heal, to create even as it destroys, to transform familiar old heroes and monuments into dust even as it raises fresh new icons from the ashes of the lost and the forgotten”
― Dan Fesperman, The Arms Maker of Berlin

“Look at how far astray the man’s adoration had led him—so many misguided betrayals, each of them a burnt offering at the altar of her memory. But now you could sense the dawning realization that he had built a flawed temple to a false god.”
― Dan Fesperman, The Arms Maker of Berlin

“A Fragment of Fear, a 1965 novel by John Bingham.”
― Dan Fesperman, The Double Game

“Trying to find Delacroix here based on Schnapp’s description would be like searching a beehive for a male with a striped belly.”
― Dan Fesperman, Safe Houses

“Maybe she should give up. Not by turning herself in, but by flying away. Travel back across the Atlantic. Become a Canadian. Live a tranquil life in the ’burbs of Toronto. Marry a bland businessman who drank Molson and followed the Maple Leafs.”
― Dan Fesperman, Safe Houses

“It was bitterly cold. A doughnut glaze of ice already coated the shallow end of the lake.”
― Dan Fesperman, Winter Work