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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.”

151. “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.”

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.”

152. “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: “She wanted to go home, and she had no idea where to find it.”

153. “She wanted to go home, and she had no idea where to find it.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “We don’t bury them, Maria. We let their dust vanish into the earth, so no one will remember their faces and names. That’s the way invaders ought to die.”

154. “We don’t bury them, Maria. We let their dust vanish into the earth, so no one will remember their faces and names. That’s the way invaders ought to die.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “If one has the luxury of sleeping safe in the night to come, one should always have more brandy.”

155. “If one has the luxury of sleeping safe in the night to come, one should always have more brandy.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “What happens now is entirely up to you – Finn Kilgore.”

156. “What happens now is entirely up to you – Finn Kilgore.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “The greatest tyrants over women are women,’” Mab quoted. “Have you read that far in Vanity Fair?”

157. “The greatest tyrants over women are women,’” Mab quoted. “Have you read that far in Vanity Fair?”

Kate Quinn Quote: “What would you do if you could do anything.”

158. “What would you do if you could do anything.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Nothing makes a party sing like the knowledge that death awaits you tomorrow, but you’ve dodged it today.”

159. “Nothing makes a party sing like the knowledge that death awaits you tomorrow, but you’ve dodged it today.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Americans are harder to scrape off than barnacles.”

160. “Americans are harder to scrape off than barnacles.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Sorry. Everyone told her they were sorry. Why didn’t they tell her how to go on living, instead? How to keep going, day after day, when soon it was going to be a year since she’d buried Lucy and Francis – then two years – then three? Why did no one tell her how to keep living?”

161. “Sorry. Everyone told her they were sorry. Why didn’t they tell her how to go on living, instead? How to keep going, day after day, when soon it was going to be a year since she’d buried Lucy and Francis – then two years – then three? Why did no one tell her how to keep living?”

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.”

162. “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: “But something else went on at the same time war did, and that was life. It kept right on going up until the moment it stopped...”

163. “But something else went on at the same time war did, and that was life. It kept right on going up until the moment it stopped...”

Kate Quinn Quote: “No one ever said anything about getting shipped off to Yorkshire.”

164. “No one ever said anything about getting shipped off to Yorkshire.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Vampires are not real, even in 2023. So far, anyway. Though if you’d put it on my bingo card for 2020, I might have bought it.”

165. “Vampires are not real, even in 2023. So far, anyway. Though if you’d put it on my bingo card for 2020, I might have bought it.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “When a man gives you jewels, even if you’re planning to throw them back in his face, you should remember his name.”

166. “When a man gives you jewels, even if you’re planning to throw them back in his face, you should remember his name.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “That’s all.” Kostia blew out a long breath. “I’m just – I’m not waving you off to war without telling you I love you.”

167. “That’s all.” Kostia blew out a long breath. “I’m just – I’m not waving you off to war without telling you I love you.”

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

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

Kate Quinn Quote: “Day shifts weren’t so bad; you could step outside for a welcome jolt of sunshine and suck your soul back into your lungs.”

169. “Day shifts weren’t so bad; you could step outside for a welcome jolt of sunshine and suck your soul back into your lungs.”

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.”

170. “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: “You’re part of the Greatest Generation, too, you old bat.”

171. “You’re part of the Greatest Generation, too, you old bat.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Yorkshire’s a bally marvel,” Lily said loyally, washing her hands. She’d grown up in York not sixty miles away, her father’s town house a stone’s throw from York Minster even if Father spent most of his time in London.”

172. “Yorkshire’s a bally marvel,” Lily said loyally, washing her hands. She’d grown up in York not sixty miles away, her father’s town house a stone’s throw from York Minster even if Father spent most of his time in London.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “I used to think that no one could beat Soviet men for endless speeches, but when I came to America, I realized men of all nationalities like the sound of their own voices, especially the kind of man who spends long hours behind a podium. Whether in a Washington park or a Sevastopol battle zone, it’s all the same: after the first speech you’re afraid the boredom will kill you; after the fifth speech, you’re praying it will.”

173. “I used to think that no one could beat Soviet men for endless speeches, but when I came to America, I realized men of all nationalities like the sound of their own voices, especially the kind of man who spends long hours behind a podium. Whether in a Washington park or a Sevastopol battle zone, it’s all the same: after the first speech you’re afraid the boredom will kill you; after the fifth speech, you’re praying it will.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “Retirement kills people like us, Eve. It’s how we die if the bullets don’t get there first.”

174. “Retirement kills people like us, Eve. It’s how we die if the bullets don’t get there first.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “But we’re at war, and wars are mankind against mankind. Not innocent beasts.”

175. “But we’re at war, and wars are mankind against mankind. Not innocent beasts.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “When a girl has broken national security to ease your mind about your family’s lying in the path of an invasion route, she has officially become a friend.”

176. “When a girl has broken national security to ease your mind about your family’s lying in the path of an invasion route, she has officially become a friend.”

Kate Quinn Quote: “It will be different, she told herself, after the war. When they weren’t trying to conduct a marriage almost entirely by post.”

177. “It will be different, she told herself, after the war. When they weren’t trying to conduct a marriage almost entirely by post.”

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.”

178. “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.”

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