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 strength, not weakness (...)

— Terry Hayes

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.

— Terry Hayes

I have heard people say love is weak, but they're wrong--love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things--patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And of every kind of love--the epic and the small, the noble and the base--the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all.

— Terry Hayes

In war, the first casualty is truth.

— Terry Hayes

People say love is weak, but they're wrong: love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things - patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And every kind of love - the epic and the small, the noble and the base - the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all. That was the lesson I learned that day, and I'll be forever grateful I did. Some years later, deep in the ruins called Theatre of Death, it salvaged everything.

— Terry Hayes

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

— Terry Hayes

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

— Terry Hayes

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.

— Terry Hayes

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

— Terry Hayes

We wanted a labor force, but human beings came.

— Terry Hayes