Mi5 Quotes

“He and I, we're friends. Does that sound odd? Me, friends with a pinko journalist?'
Nothing sounded odd to Lamb; except, perhaps, that people had friends.”
― Mick Herron, Slow Horses

“Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture.”
― Mick Herron, Slow Horses

“When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.”
― David Crossman, A Terrible Mercy: 11/17/2014

“When you give in to bullies, you don't just empower them, you encourage whatever methods they employ to achieve their ends; usually terror and violence. Meaning it's the innocent who pay; mourners at a funeral in Baghdad, a group of Coptic Christians on a beach in Libya, a group of defenseless school children in Pakistan. When we turn a blind eye to atrocities, we are complicit in them.”
― David Crossman

“on board a train wreck in slow motion dragging distances of time in phantom carriages behind it”
― Bill Fairclough, Beyond Enkription

“TheBurlingtonFiles ... #BetterThanBond”
― Bill Fairclough, Beyond Enkription

“Many of those who were involved in this matter are now dead or have disappeared. Of those who live, only one wants the story to see the light of day.”
― Ido Graf, See Glass

“I thought #JamesBond was a real spy until I read #TheBurlingtonFiles.”
― Bill Fairclough

“I thought The Ipcress File was a cook book by Harry Palmer until I read #TheBurlingtonFiles.”
― Bill Fairclough

“Several people warned me about taking on this role, you know. They seemed to think that there were easier ways of securing a seat in the Lords.”
― Mick Herron, Joe Country

“Despite the fact that nothing complicates the truth as much as a lie, if the truth is as obvious as it is
inescapable, then the fabrication of its banality could be viewed as an act of benevolence.”
― Daniel Kemp