{"quotes":[{"text":"(On the myth of Eros)Each time I recall this myth, I wonder: Are we never to be able to see the true face of love? And I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears.","author":"Paulo Coelho","tags":["eros","living","love","mata-hari","spy"],"id":7736,"author_id":"Paulo+Coelho"},{"text":"I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat.","author":"Maria V. Snyder","tags":["couple","fight","spy","spying"],"id":14566,"author_id":"Maria+V.+Snyder"},{"text":"He'd done this hundreds of times: done a job, been drugged with a narcotic that erased his short term memory, and dumped in a seedy hole in the wall locale, where when he climbed out, he would have to figure out where he was, find a payphone, and call in for his next job.","author":"Jennifer Arnett","tags":["agent","drug","memory","short-story","spy","spy-thriller"],"id":18663,"author_id":"Jennifer+Arnett"},{"text":"Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.","author":"Ally Carter","tags":["inspirational","life-lessons","spy"],"id":20554,"author_id":"Ally+Carter"},{"text":"For millions of years, man spoke only to what he could see. Suddenly, in just one decade, 'seeing' and 'speaking' have been separated. We think we're used to it, yet we don't realize the immense impact it's had on our reflexes. Our bodies are simply not used to it. Frankly, the result is that, when we talk on the telephone, we enter a state that is similar to certain magical trances; we can discover other things about ourselves.","author":"Paulo Coelho","tags":["communication","human-nature","spy"],"id":31336,"author_id":"Paulo+Coelho"},{"text":"Don't mention your move before you make a move.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["act","adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","attack","blog","blogging","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","compromised","confidentiality","creative-writing","essay","inspirational","knowledge","leak","make","make-a-move","mention","motivational","move","movie","movie-dialogue","novel-writing","philosophy","plan","planning","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","secrecy","secret","slogans","social-networking","speech","speechwriting","spy","story","tag-lines","taking-action","talk","wisdom","writing"],"id":37797,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"She was born under the sign of Gemini. And that stands for the good and evil twin. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde both hiding and residing inside her heart. Her good twin was not bad at all. But her evil twin was even better, and showed up to be way too fatal!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["actress","aspects","astrological","astrological-omens","astrology","astrology","behavior","blond-beast","blonde","celebrities","celebrity","cinema","conflict","conspiracy","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-thriller","culture","discussion","dispute","double","double-agent","double-personality","dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde","duality","entertainment-industry","fame","famous","film","gemini","good-and-evil","gossip","heart","hollywood","hollywood-culture","intellect","intellectual","intelligence","literature","marilyn","marilyn-monroe","misery","misticism","model","move","movies","murder","murder-mystery","murderers","murmur","mute","mystery","opposites","psychological","psychological-thriller","psychology","split","split-personality","spy","spy-thriller","spying","twin","twin-towers","twins"],"id":53593,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Civil order mattered.\tZoe didn’t know why Farah continued to wear the headscarf, but most Middle-Eastern women wore modest clothing to anchor themselves to a moral order, in an upside-down world.\tZoe wore the chador as a protective shell, to erase herself, to avoid thinking, to envelop herself in the complete custody of her adopted Muslim sisters. In their care she would come out healed, able to process the bigotry that caused the murder of her Jewish parents. Then, when she was whole again, she would reclaim her place in the world.\tThough others couldn’t see it, behind the nameless, shapeless, Middle-Eastern garb, she was healing. The chador cocooned and nurtured her. Dour exteriors meant blossoming interiors . . . To Zoe. Judaism centered her, but Islam shielded her. Both served their purpose . . . For now.","author":"Michael Benzehabe","tags":["benzehabe","chador","cyber-war","exterior","interior","islam","judaism","middle-east","mossad","spy","unassimilated"],"id":55372,"author_id":"Michael+Benzehabe"},{"text":"The front desk man is a spy for a famous French chef, hoping to stealing the pastry recipes of the shop down the street. And the lovely shop girl who just delivered a box of-- what is most certainly-- pastries is his secret accomplice. The note she passed him while blushing has a recipe for the perfect croissant.","author":"jessic lawson","tags":["box-of","croissant","french-chef","front-desk","girl","man","pastries","recipe","shop","spy"],"id":55759,"author_id":"jessic+lawson"},{"text":"Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.","author":"Kenneth Eade","tags":["espionage","political-thriller","spy","thriller"],"id":65585,"author_id":"Kenneth+Eade"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":80,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}