spies quotes

• It's something quite harsh and coarse. It reeks. It has a kind of sexual urgency to it. And it unsettles me, as it always does. I feel a ... what? A restlessness.
• far-off nearby land
• insinuating itself so slyly
• vulgar smell
• as light and insubstantial as soap bubbles
• memory lane vs amnesia avenue
• Everything is as it was, (...) and everything has changed
• entirely monochrome
• old black-and-white snaps
• socially colour coded for ease of reference
• yellow and black are the colours of the right local preparatory school
• green and black are the colours of the wrong school
• He was the officer corps in our two-man army. I was the other ranks - and grateful to be so.
• for ever making perfection yet more perfect
• another amazing ornament of the Hayward family
• glowed with a kind of sacred light, like a saint
• silver frame / silver cups / silver brooch
• His very absence was a kind of presence
• Thank you for having me
• soft clinking of lemon barley
• "My mother" he said reflectively, almost regretfully, "is a German spy."
• admiring jealousy
• LOGBOOK - SECRIT I have private reservations about the spelling but keep them to myself, as i do all the other small occasional reservations i have about his authority.
• lifeless clipped grey hair and grimly ironic smile
• grey tailcoat
• air-force blue / still boyish
• we work to penetrate the secrets of the present and dismantle their future
• the loyal squire and sword-bearer that a hero requires
• he's in some mysterious way their creator
• he uttered the words, and the words became so. He told the story, and the story came to life.
• it both is and is not the sacred bayonet, just as the wafer and the wine both are and are not the body and blood of a being who both is and is not a God
• he looks like his father
• Go home if you're bored, old bean
• blue uniform flecked with pink by the soft pink snowfall
• worshipping faces
• It's a ghost story
• two brown eyes and a big mocking smile
• everything about her is soft and girlish
• Barbara Berrill's coming back. But its not her. It's Keiths mother
• undersized (boy/pensioner) with the tea pot ears