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“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.” (The Alice Network Quotes)
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“Boys got to do whatever they wanted, and girls got to sit around looking pretty.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“Hope was such a painful thing, far more painful than rage.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“I believe in revenge… I’ve lost faith in much over the years, but not that.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“I will not tell you one single solitary fact about my work, my friends, or the woman I was arested with. But I will tell you this, Rene Bordelon. You’re a gullible fool. You’re a terribly lover. And I hate Baudelaire.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“If one has the luxury of sleeping safe in the night to come, one should always have more brandy.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“It is facile to condemn the French for giving in to the Nazis too easily when many French citizens would have still borne the horrendous scars of the first occupation, would have clearly remembered having to stand back while German sentries robbed them of everything but the nearly inedible ration bread because the only alternative was to be arrested, beaten, or shot. The French survived not one but two brutal occupations in a span of less than forty years, and deserve more credit for their flinty endurance than they receive.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“Lethe is the river of forgetfulness that runs through the underworld, so the classics tell us, and there is nothing more potent than forgetfulness.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“Life is not a math problem, Charlotte.” If it was, I’d have been a lot better at it. I’d often wished I could work out people as easily as I did arithmetic: simply break them down to their common denominators and solve. Numbers didn’t lie; there was always an answer, and the answer was either right or it was wrong. Simple. But nothing in life was simple, and there was no answer here to solve for.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“Life ought to be more like a play; the entrances and exits would be a lot cleaner.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“Many a gem lies hidden in darkness and oblivion”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“Men are strange creatures…If a woman surrenders her virtue to an enemy, they are confident her patriotism can’t be far behind. They have very little faith in a woman’s ability to resist falling in love with a man who beds her. Besides, a horizontale isn’t respectable, and a spy’s business is already disreputable enough. We can’t bring shame on our country by staining our reputations — if we’re to engage in espionage, we must do it as ladies.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“One college sophomore minus one small encumbrance, divided by six months’ passage of time, multiplied by ten Paris frocks and a new haircut will not magically equal one restored reputation.” (The Alice Network Quotes)
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“Poetry is like passion-it should not be merely pretty; it should overwhelm and bruise.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“Retirement kills people like us, Eve. It’s how we die if the bullets don’t get there first.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“Rose wasn’t going to write a book or swim the Channel or do anything different – because once you’re pregnant, you’re finished.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“Steel blades such as you and I do not measure against the standards for ordinary women.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“That doesn’t mean you were boring, ma p’tite. Just bored. Most women are bored, because being female is boring. We only get married because it’s something to do, and then we have children and find out babies are the only thing more boring than other women.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“The habit of nagging, let me assure you, goes with a nurse no matter what she does.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“The idea made her sick and scared, but so what? Why did it matter if something scared you, when it simply had to be done anyway?”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“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.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“The nightmare hours belonged to happier conversations.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“There are two kinds of flowers when it comes to women,” Eve said. “The kind that sit safe in a beautiful vase, or the kind that survive in any conditions… even in evil. Lili was the latter. Which are you?” (The Alice Network Quotes)
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“Welcome to real spy work. Mostly tedious, occasionally exhilarating.”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“What did it matter if something scared you, when it simply had to be done?”
Kate Quinn
The Alice Network
“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
The Alice Network
