“Maybe it is all rotten, but if the good ones leave, who’s there to make it better after the war? I know why you have to leave, Ninochka. It’s leave or nothing. But I can’t give up my homeland and my oath for love. That’s the kind of thing that makes men say little princesses have no place at the front.”

“Maybe it is all rotten, but if the good ones leave, who’s there to make it better after the war? I know why you have to leave, Ninochka. It’s leave or nothing. But I can’t give up my homeland and my oath for love. That’s the kind of thing that makes men say little princesses have no place at the front.”

— Kate Quinn