123 Quotes by Kate Quinn

Buck up, I told myself fiercely as a bellboy brushed past. Just buck up. Don’t be sorry for yourself, Charlie St. Clair, because that is just so goddamn boring.

Arius in his injured ankle; he drew a breath through his teeth. “Why her? Why not me?” He regarded her briefly. “Because you look like a ferret.

The nightmare hours belonged to happier conversations.

The habit of nagging, let me assure you, goes with a nurse no matter what she does.

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.

Put profit above all else – country, family, God – and there wasn’t much left to stop you getting it.

So you’re met Finn. He’s a dash, isn’t he? If I weren’t older than dirt and ugly as sin, I’d climb that like a French alp.

Because we can keep on. Others, they try keeping on, they just... ” she mimed an explosion. “It’s too much for them. They come to pieces. Not us. Hunters, they are different. We can’t stop. Not for bad sleep or parachute dreams or people who say we should want peace and babies instead. It’s a world full of mad wolves, and we hunt them til we die.” 61%.

Eve wondered how much it was possible to change in two weeks. Or was it not change, but becoming what she already was?