123 Quotes by Kate Quinn

Some men ogle, some men look. The first makes us bristle, and the second makes us melt, and men are at an utter loss knowing the difference. But we do, and we know it at once.

Moments like this should have been glorious, and they never were. The monsters always looked so ordinary and pathetic, in the flesh.

Poetry is like passion – it should not be merely pretty; it should overwhelm and bruise.

Steel blades such as you and I do not measure against the standards for ordinary women.

Is a Russian thing. Sit around, drink too much, talk about death.” She pushed her empty plate away. “It makes us cheerful.

We’re standing in the ashes of a war like no other – if we don’t try harder to see the shades of gray involved, we’ll find ourselves in the thick of a new one.

What did it matter if something scared you, when it simply had to be done?

You’re smarter than any woman I know, a wee little adding machine in a black dress, and I like that. You’ve got a sharp tongue, and I like that too. You try to save everyone you meet, from your cousin and your brother to hopeless cockups like Gardiner and me, and I like that most of all. So I’m here to take you to dinner. I’m here in a jacket.” Pause. “I hate jackets.

Many a gem lies hidden in darkness and oblivion.