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Kate Quinn Quote: “Your childhood sounds like a Degas picnic.”

101. “Your childhood sounds like a Degas picnic.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “He loves me hard.”

102. “He loves me hard.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “I had nothing left to bring up, but my stomach turned itself inside out anyway.”

103. “I had nothing left to bring up, but my stomach turned itself inside out anyway.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Of doubt and dark they feed their nerves; The signal moon is zero in their voids.”

104. “Of doubt and dark they feed their nerves; The signal moon is zero in their voids.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “We Americans are used to viewing war from a distance – the privilege of living, as Chancellor Otto von Bismarck once said, with less powerful neighbors to the north and south, and nothing to the east and west but fish. Even the terrible attack on our own Pearl Harbor came thousands of miles away.”

105. “We Americans are used to viewing war from a distance – the privilege of living, as Chancellor Otto von Bismarck once said, with less powerful neighbors to the north and south, and nothing to the east and west but fish. Even the terrible attack on our own Pearl Harbor came thousands of miles away.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “No matter how hard the metal, it yields to human strength,” I retorted. “Everything does. All you have to do is devise the right weapon.”

106. “No matter how hard the metal, it yields to human strength,” I retorted. “Everything does. All you have to do is devise the right weapon.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Most assume women have no place at the front lines, but after hearing about your friends in the regiment – ” “Women are good in combat,” Nina said matter-of-factly. “We don’t compete like the men do. Is all mission, no proving who is better with stupid stunts.”

107. “Most assume women have no place at the front lines, but after hearing about your friends in the regiment – ” “Women are good in combat,” Nina said matter-of-factly. “We don’t compete like the men do. Is all mission, no proving who is better with stupid stunts.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “We were like actors who had missed the cue that their scene was over. Life ought to be more like a play; the entrances and exits would be a lot cleaner.”

108. “We were like actors who had missed the cue that their scene was over. Life ought to be more like a play; the entrances and exits would be a lot cleaner.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Talk to me, Matt. Just talk to me. Until the signal moon goes zero.”

109. “Talk to me, Matt. Just talk to me. Until the signal moon goes zero.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. – MARCUS AURELIUS.”

110. “Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. – MARCUS AURELIUS.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Oradour-sur-Glane.”

111. “Oradour-sur-Glane.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “More Baudelaire,” he answered. “’Nothing can match the abyss of your bed, potent oblivion lingers on your lips, and Lethe flows in your kisses.”

112. “More Baudelaire,” he answered. “’Nothing can match the abyss of your bed, potent oblivion lingers on your lips, and Lethe flows in your kisses.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Boys got to do whatever they wanted, and girls got to sit around looking pretty. I wasn’t very pretty, but my parents still seemed to have lofty plans for me: white gloves, a proper school, and becoming a Lovely Bride someday. Maman had already told me that if I was lucky, I’d be engaged by the time I was twenty, just like her.”

113. “Boys got to do whatever they wanted, and girls got to sit around looking pretty. I wasn’t very pretty, but my parents still seemed to have lofty plans for me: white gloves, a proper school, and becoming a Lovely Bride someday. Maman had already told me that if I was lucky, I’d be engaged by the time I was twenty, just like her.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Mab felt a grin hook itself nearly behind her ears.”

114. “Mab felt a grin hook itself nearly behind her ears.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “They called themselves our allies, but so far they were leaving us to die in the hundreds of thousands.”

115. “They called themselves our allies, but so far they were leaving us to die in the hundreds of thousands.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “A bad man can be a good carpenter or a good hatmaker or a good lover. The skill has nothing to do with the soul.”

116. “A bad man can be a good carpenter or a good hatmaker or a good lover. The skill has nothing to do with the soul.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “I couldn’t push my fear away, but I could push it into my weapon.”

117. “I couldn’t push my fear away, but I could push it into my weapon.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Then again, 1947 was hell for any girl who would rather work calculus problems than read Vogue, any girl who would rather listen to Edith Piaf than Artie Shaw, and any girl with an empty ring finger but a rounding belly.”

118. “Then again, 1947 was hell for any girl who would rather work calculus problems than read Vogue, any girl who would rather listen to Edith Piaf than Artie Shaw, and any girl with an empty ring finger but a rounding belly.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful in its wars, torn by civil strife, and even in peace full of horrors. Four emperors perished by the sword.” – TACITUS.”

119. “I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, frightful in its wars, torn by civil strife, and even in peace full of horrors. Four emperors perished by the sword.” – TACITUS.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “The kind of home where a child learned quickly to slide unseen around the edges of rooms, to vanish like a shadow in a black night at the first rumble on the domestic horizon. To listen to everything, weigh everything, all the while remaining unnoticed. “Yes, it was a very instructive childhood.”

120. “The kind of home where a child learned quickly to slide unseen around the edges of rooms, to vanish like a shadow in a black night at the first rumble on the domestic horizon. To listen to everything, weigh everything, all the while remaining unnoticed. “Yes, it was a very instructive childhood.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “The most famous victim of the surgery is probably JFK’s intellectually disabled sister, Rosemary Kennedy: subjected to a prefrontal lobotomy at twenty-three in an attempt to calm her emotional outbursts, she spent the remaining sixty years of her life institutionalized, reduced to the mental capacity of a toddler.”

121. “The most famous victim of the surgery is probably JFK’s intellectually disabled sister, Rosemary Kennedy: subjected to a prefrontal lobotomy at twenty-three in an attempt to calm her emotional outbursts, she spent the remaining sixty years of her life institutionalized, reduced to the mental capacity of a toddler.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “From coronation to funeral, an emperor’s life was a circus. But even an emperor had to die alone.”

122. “From coronation to funeral, an emperor’s life was a circus. But even an emperor had to die alone.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Cancel leave, cancel meals, cancel sleep. The day is set.”

123. “Cancel leave, cancel meals, cancel sleep. The day is set.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “So, Miss Gardiner,” Captain Cameron said. “Can I get a straight answer out of you if I ask a question?” Don’t count on it, Eve thought. She lied and evaded as easily as she breathed; it was what she’d had to do all her life. Lying, lying, lying, with a face like a daisy. Eve couldn’t remember the last time she’d been completely straight with anyone. Lies were easier than the hard and turbulent truth.”

124. “So, Miss Gardiner,” Captain Cameron said. “Can I get a straight answer out of you if I ask a question?” Don’t count on it, Eve thought. She lied and evaded as easily as she breathed; it was what she’d had to do all her life. Lying, lying, lying, with a face like a daisy. Eve couldn’t remember the last time she’d been completely straight with anyone. Lies were easier than the hard and turbulent truth.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Such a light kiss, to leave her so pinned in place.”

125. “Such a light kiss, to leave her so pinned in place.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Knowledge, to light the path for humankind,” I said at last. “And this” – patting my rifle – “to protect humankind when we lose that path.”

126. “Knowledge, to light the path for humankind,” I said at last. “And this” – patting my rifle – “to protect humankind when we lose that path.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Never listen to people like that, little daisy. They’re not only joyless drones, they usually wear chintz and think housework is a virtue.”

127. “Never listen to people like that, little daisy. They’re not only joyless drones, they usually wear chintz and think housework is a virtue.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “And if she often felt like weeping from the stress and the fear and the endless grinding dread of it all, what did that matter? There was a war on; you pinned a smile in place and kept going.”

128. “And if she often felt like weeping from the stress and the fear and the endless grinding dread of it all, what did that matter? There was a war on; you pinned a smile in place and kept going.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “If I wish a suitable companion, it has struck me that I will have to play Pygmalion from the Greek myth, and sculpt one for myself.”

129. “If I wish a suitable companion, it has struck me that I will have to play Pygmalion from the Greek myth, and sculpt one for myself.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “She had flirted all her life, instinctively, defensively. You play that same game, she thought, looking at Philip. Be charming to all, so no one gets too close.”

130. “She had flirted all her life, instinctively, defensively. You play that same game, she thought, looking at Philip. Be charming to all, so no one gets too close.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Better to live an old maid with a shiny desk and a salary in the bank, proudly achieved through the sweat of her own efforts, than end up disappointed and old before her time thanks to long factory hours and too much childbirth. Anything was better than that.”

131. “Better to live an old maid with a shiny desk and a salary in the bank, proudly achieved through the sweat of her own efforts, than end up disappointed and old before her time thanks to long factory hours and too much childbirth. Anything was better than that.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “The little men are still out here taking the bullets while the big men sit safe and dry. That doesn’t change no matter who’s in charge.”

132. “The little men are still out here taking the bullets while the big men sit safe and dry. That doesn’t change no matter who’s in charge.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “She’d learned something these last few days about dealing with cryptanalysts: point them at the coffee, point them at the problem, then get out of the way.”

133. “She’d learned something these last few days about dealing with cryptanalysts: point them at the coffee, point them at the problem, then get out of the way.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “He smiled bitterly. “Bullets, boredom, or brandy – that’s how people like us go, because God knows we aren’t made for peace.”

134. “He smiled bitterly. “Bullets, boredom, or brandy – that’s how people like us go, because God knows we aren’t made for peace.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Keep Mum, She’s Not So Dumb!” Did you really need a war, Lily wondered, to remind men that women weren’t stupid? Of course you bally well did.”

135. “Keep Mum, She’s Not So Dumb!” Did you really need a war, Lily wondered, to remind men that women weren’t stupid? Of course you bally well did.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Mab brought the letter to her evening shift, reading it at the checking machine as she waited for Aggie to halt. She read it three times, then she put it away, hands trembling. Francis didn’t even have to be in the same bed, or the same room, or the same city to give her that feeling of being unshelled, naked as a chick peeled from its egg. She wanted to cry and she wanted to smile, she wanted to dance and she wanted to blush.”

136. “Mab brought the letter to her evening shift, reading it at the checking machine as she waited for Aggie to halt. She read it three times, then she put it away, hands trembling. Francis didn’t even have to be in the same bed, or the same room, or the same city to give her that feeling of being unshelled, naked as a chick peeled from its egg. She wanted to cry and she wanted to smile, she wanted to dance and she wanted to blush.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Someone had slipped a little of his time into her pocket, and she didn’t know how much more they had left.”

137. “Someone had slipped a little of his time into her pocket, and she didn’t know how much more they had left.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “What I’m saying is, I don’t need a lot of young cockerels chesting about, competing with each other. Women” – Dilly leveled a finger at Beth – “are more flexible, less competitive, and more inclined to get on with the job in hand. They pay more attention to detail, probably because they’ve been squinting at their knitting and measuring things in kitchens all their lives. They listen.”

138. “What I’m saying is, I don’t need a lot of young cockerels chesting about, competing with each other. Women” – Dilly leveled a finger at Beth – “are more flexible, less competitive, and more inclined to get on with the job in hand. They pay more attention to detail, probably because they’ve been squinting at their knitting and measuring things in kitchens all their lives. They listen.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Darling Mab, you are and always will be the Girl in the Hat. The girl who makes life worth living.”

139. “Darling Mab, you are and always will be the Girl in the Hat. The girl who makes life worth living.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. – MARCUS AURELIUS.”

140. “Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. – MARCUS AURELIUS.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “You know why none of us judge? Because none of us have the goddamn right to look down our noses at anyone else’s sins.”

141. “You know why none of us judge? Because none of us have the goddamn right to look down our noses at anyone else’s sins.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “When you’re young and you’ve known nothing but peace, you assume there will always be time for everything.”

142. “When you’re young and you’ve known nothing but peace, you assume there will always be time for everything.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Straight off a cliff I’d march, blank and obedient, and not wonder or care why I was falling till I was halfway down. I’d been halfway down the hole my life had become, turning endlessly in the air. But now I’d grabbed a handhold.”

143. “Straight off a cliff I’d march, blank and obedient, and not wonder or care why I was falling till I was halfway down. I’d been halfway down the hole my life had become, turning endlessly in the air. But now I’d grabbed a handhold.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “No one better to teach you to be a good man than a good woman, I promise.”

144. “No one better to teach you to be a good man than a good woman, I promise.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Please, do not forgive me! Forgiveness hurt so much more than hatred.”

145. “Please, do not forgive me! Forgiveness hurt so much more than hatred.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “She was drunk on him, every nerve in her body singing.”

146. “She was drunk on him, every nerve in her body singing.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “I can’t slouch in this getup.” I was crammed into a waist cincher like a band of iron, not that I needed one because I was built like a twig, but my froth of skirts wouldn’t hang right without it, so band of iron it was. That.”

147. “I can’t slouch in this getup.” I was crammed into a waist cincher like a band of iron, not that I needed one because I was built like a twig, but my froth of skirts wouldn’t hang right without it, so band of iron it was. That.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “We loved each other by proxy, Mr. Graham. He loved me through a girl he saw once in Paris in 1918, and I loved him through his letters, but we hardly spent any time together. I don’t have any personal anecdotes about my husband. We didn’t have time to create any.”

148. “We loved each other by proxy, Mr. Graham. He loved me through a girl he saw once in Paris in 1918, and I loved him through his letters, but we hardly spent any time together. I don’t have any personal anecdotes about my husband. We didn’t have time to create any.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “My father died in 1912, of a heart b-blockage.” It was a kind of blockage, getting stuck in the heart with a butcher knife wielded by a cuckolded husband. “My mother didn’t like the rumbling from Germany, and decided to bring me to London.” To escape the scandal, not the Boche. “She died of influenza last year, God rest her soul.” Bitter, vulgar, and haranguing to the end, flinging teacups at Eve and swearing.”

149. “My father died in 1912, of a heart b-blockage.” It was a kind of blockage, getting stuck in the heart with a butcher knife wielded by a cuckolded husband. “My mother didn’t like the rumbling from Germany, and decided to bring me to London.” To escape the scandal, not the Boche. “She died of influenza last year, God rest her soul.” Bitter, vulgar, and haranguing to the end, flinging teacups at Eve and swearing.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “I am telling you that order is absurd. You think there are no idiots in the intelligence business, that your superiors are all brilliant men who understand the game?” A furious hand waved in Major Allenton’s direction. “This business is rife with idiots. They play with lives and they play badly, and when people like you die as a result, they shrug and say, ‘Risks have to be taken in wartime.’ Pg 326.”

150. “I am telling you that order is absurd. You think there are no idiots in the intelligence business, that your superiors are all brilliant men who understand the game?” A furious hand waved in Major Allenton’s direction. “This business is rife with idiots. They play with lives and they play badly, and when people like you die as a result, they shrug and say, ‘Risks have to be taken in wartime.’ Pg 326.”

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