Status Updates From Agent 6 (Leo Demidov, #3)

"That’s how conspiracy theories are born. The official version has to sound like a lie even when it’s the truth, and the louder you say the truth, the more people look elsewhere."

"But better to be isolated than to compromise her beliefs, striving for acceptance from those she did not respect. There was no value in love that was dependent upon pretense."

"They considered indiscriminate murder a tactical mistake, undermining the Communist regime. There was nothing wrong with a bloody purge, but murder had to be smart and for the benefit of the Party, rather than to satisfy a personal grievance."

"Normally when there was a convenient explanation the truth was somewhere else."

"Maybe that was the definition of craziness—to trash a good thing for no reason at all."

"Had it been in his power he would’ve frozen time, halting the approaching dawn, stopping the sun from rising and delaying for eternity the moment when he’d have to say goodbye."