Tom Rob Smith Quotes

#1. A person can always be sure of what they don't know. They might not be sure of what they know.

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#2. Leo's very existence had been a kind of perpetual punishment for Vasili. So, then, why did he miss him?

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#3. Let me quickly remind you that the allegation of being mentally incapable is a tried and tested method of silencing women dating back hundreds of years, a weapon to discredit us when we fought against abuses and stood up to authority.

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#4. If he wanted to hear about love, the first verse was his to sing.

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#5. Except when I was alone. I'd hate myself. It's how we feel about ourselves when we're alone that must guide our decisions.

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#6. A man both handsome and repulsive in equal measure-as if his good looks were plastered over a rotten centre, a hero's face with a henchman's heart.

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#7. Sentimentality could blind a man to the truth. Those who appear the most trustworthy deserve the most suspicion.

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#8. Trust but check. Check on those we trust.

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#9. You are not doing this for her. You're doing it for yourself. Your life is not just about the people you love. It's also about the people you hate.

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#10. Leo, I have another secret. I've fallen in love with you."
"I've always loved you.

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#11. The survival of their political system justified anything. The promise of a golden age where none of this brutality would exist, where everything would be in plenty and poverty would be a memory, justified anything.

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#12. The price of this story was the audience's innocence.

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#13. An infamous political prison required a revolution as much as a revolution required an infamous political prison.

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#14. I thought upon the way in which we'd always shared each other's happiness, believing it would make the moment burn brighter and longer, but sadness can be shared too, perhaps sharing makes is burn briefer and less bright.

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#15. - When the police are criminals, the criminals must become the police. The innocent must live underground, in the shit of the city, while the villains live in warm apartments. The world is upside down: I'm merely turning it the right way up.

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#16. His hate wasn't professional; it was an obsession, a fixation, as if unrequited love had grown awful, twisted into something ugly.

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#17. - Isn't this how it starts? You have a cause you believe in, a cause worth dying for. Soon, it's a cause worth killing for. Soon, it's a cause worth killing innocent people for.

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#18. To stand up for someone was to stitch your fate into the lining of theirs.

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#19. The system required the consent of everyone, even if they consented by doing nothing.

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#20. There's nothing more stubborn than a fact. That is why you hate them so much. They offend you.

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