123 Quotes by Kate Quinn

If he doesn’t love me in a boiler suit, he’s not worth dressing up for in the first place.

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.

Even if we lose, what of it? We have made a song of freedom that will ring for a thousand years. No one will forget the Iceni or their red-haired queen.

I believe in my stars. I’ll make them go where I want.

I’m a man of Rome, with all that entails – a citizen, a soldier, a paterfamilias – and all men of Rome think they stride the earth and make it tremble. We make the laws and then punish the lawless; we make the borders and then punish the border-breakers; we record our own glory and then demand our names be remembered – all over the Empire we stride and we bellow, we make and we break. But if men are the makers and breakers of empires, then women are the makers and breakers of men. This.

I love you, Vix,” she said frankly. “But whatever made you think I want to follow your stars, and not my own?

I stood... poisoned in it’s presence.

Time is a wheel, vast and indifferent, and when time rolls on and men forget, we face the risk of circling back.

Rose wasn’t going to write a book or swim the Channel or do anything different – because once you’re pregnant, you’re finished.