#spy

All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#losers #richard-kadrey #romantics #spyder-lee #romantic

I didn’t know what was more disturbing—the fact that something was obviously wrong, or that three faculty members of the world’s premiere spy school had forgotten to lock the door. ↗

— Ally Carter

#spies #spy #love

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually. ↗

— Ally Carter

#life-lessons #spy #inspirational

If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish ↗

— Mark Frost

#mystery #sherlock-holmes #spy #truth #inspirational

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized. ↗

— Dana Delany

#easily #get #good #i #i can

She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was. ↗

— Maile Meloy

#short-story #spy-vs-spy #family

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. ↗

— William Hull

#aid #arrested #artillery #been #british

Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET YOUR BLACK TULIPS HERE. Every nerve in my body was on man-alert, screaming, "incoming! ↗

— Lauren Willig

#funny-and-random #lauren-willig #spies #spy #funny

They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#desert #engaged #horses #night #our

I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict. ↗

— Witold Pilecki

#arrested #ask #carried #deciding #had