Our ​Kind of Traitor 2 csillagozás

Michelle Obama and her children are in town, according to Madame Mère, but it’s a State secret, so only Madame Mère and all Paris knows.

189. oldal, 11. fejezet (Penguin, 2010)

‘The work. Does it warp your mind? Are you aware of – well – déformation professionnelle?’
‘You mean, am I psycho?’
‘Nothing as drastic as that. Just – well, how it affects you over the long term?’
Luke’s head remained down, but his pencil had stopped roaming, and there was challenge in his stillness.
‘In the long term?’ he repeated, in studious puzzlement. ‘In the long term we’ll all be dead, I imagine.’

86. oldal, 6. fejezet (Penguin, 2010)

‘Well how about because it’s there?’ Hector suggested. ‘Isn’t that why climbers are supposed to climb?’
‘So they say.’
‘Load of bollocks, actually. It’s because the climbers are there. Don’t blame the bloody mountain. Blame the climbers. Agree?’

113. oldal, 7. fejezet (Penguin, 2010)

Look at the hash you’ve made of it so far. Gail’s not aboard, she’s pining to be. I don’t know what century you think you’re living in, but she’s as much entitled as you are to make her own decisions.

118. oldal, 7. fejezet (Penguin, 2010)

You’re on record as believing that our green and pleasant land is in dire need of saving from itself. I happen to share that opinion. I’ve studied the disease, I’ve lived in the swamp. It is my informed conclusion that we are suffering, as an ex-great nation, from top-down corporate rot.

119. oldal, 7. fejezet (Penguin, 2010)

‘Aren’t you supposed to be the gentlemen who lie for the good of their country?’
‘That’s diplomats. We’re not gentlemen.’
‘So you lie to save your hides.’
‘That’s politicians. Different game entirely.’

120. oldal, 7. fejezet (Penguin, 2010)

Six months ago, when Luke was back on home leave after three years in Bogotá, the Queen of Human Resources, disrespectfully known throughout the Service as the Human Queen, had informed him that he was headed for the shelf.

122. oldal, 8. fejezet (Penguin, 2010)

Yes, Perry, him too. Another bloody him. One day we’ll have equal opportunity for female Russian criminals.

63. oldal, 4. fejezet (Penguin, 2010)

Like Luke, each time he watches the film that is running, he is by his own admission awestruck in the presence of the classic, timeless, all-Russian, bare-faced whopping lie.

169. oldal, 10. fejezet (Penguin, 2010)

‘So how about you people?’ he demands. ‘Don’t you ever have doubts?’
‘Oh, we’re fucked anyway,’ Hector replies carelessly. ‘That’s the point, isn’t it? If you’re going to be fucked, be fucked in a good cause.’

186. oldal, 11. fejezet (Penguin, 2010)