Best 11 quotes of Terry Hayes on MyQuotes

A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a deeply devout Muslim who had graduated with honors in medicine, a man who had fed a stranger to wild dogs in Damascus, a zealot who had dosed three foreigners with smallpox and watched them die in agony, gave thanks to Allah for the blessings that had been bestowed upon him.

Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.

Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.

Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.

The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.

A hundred times I must have thought of ways to take it back, but I wasn't smart enough to understand that an apology is a sign of strenght, not weakness (...)

I had been to Jeddah on my previous trip, so I knew it well enough. There was only one thing to recommend it: say, you wanted to commit suicide and couldn’t quite find the courage, two days in Jeddah would do the trick.

It says in the Qur’an that the taking of a single life destroys a universe, and there was the evidence in front of me - twenty seven hundred universes shattered in a few moments. Universes of family, of children, of friends.

The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs.

The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone.

There was one thing the experience had taught him. He said he'd learned that when millions of people, a whole political system, countless numbers of citizens who believed in God, said they were going to kill you - just listen to them.