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101 " putting these things on paper meant you had to unpack your own disgrace in ugly black and white. "
― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network
102 " Welcome to real spy work. Mostly tedious, occasionally exhilarating. "
103 " finally turned away. My aunt stood watching from the back door, frail and hunched. “Tell me the rest,” I said, and she did, her voice flat. My uncle had sent Rose to a little town outside Limoges to give birth away from anyone she knew. She didn’t write when the baby was born, told them nothing about it, and they didn’t ask. "
104 " 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. "
105 " I could pretend all day that I didn't care, because caring left me thrashing and vulnerable. "
106 " will not tell you one single solitary fact about my work, my friends, or the woman I was arrested with. But I will tell you this, René Bordelon. You’re a gullible fool. You’re a terrible lover. And I hate Baudelaire. "
107 " Men demonstrate their courage more often in little things than in great. —BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE "
― Kate Quinn , The Lion and the Rose (The Borgias, #2)
108 " It is better to be feared than loved. —MACHIAVELLI "
― Kate Quinn , The Serpent and the Pearl (The Borgias, #1)
109 " Mab felt a grin hook itself nearly behind her ears. "
― Kate Quinn , The Rose Code
110 " Los dioses nos dan a los enanos unos centímetros de más aquí abajo para compensar los que nos quitan de altura. "
― Kate Quinn , Mistress of Rome (The Empress of Rome, #1)
111 " Nina took the air, feeling her arms disappear into the wings, her blood into the fuel line. "
― Kate Quinn , The Huntress
112 " Seize the night; trust as little as possible in tomorrow, "
― Kate Quinn , Empress of the Seven Hills (The Empress of Rome, #3)
113 " Los duelos de bestias salvajes siempre abrían las festividades matutinas. Hoy, en primer lugar había un combate entre un elefante y un rinoceronte. Este último terminó sacando un ojo a su rival con el cuerno. Pensé que podría haber vivido muy feliz sin necesidad de saber cómo sonaba el grito de un elefante. "
114 " It was about as organized and efficient as a monkey shit fight in a zoo. "
― Kate Quinn , The Diamond Eye
115 " The little men are still out here taking the bullets while the big men sit safe and dry. That doesn’t change no matter who’s in charge. "
116 " There are more war criminals out there than we will ever be able to find. If I have to let go of the ones that won’t get found unless we turn into torturers, I’m at ease with that decision. "
117 " What if the woman who killed your brother and nearly killed your wife lies on the other side of beating the shit out of a witness? "
118 " She had flirted all her life, instinctively, defensively. You play that same game, she thought, looking at Philip. Be charming to all, so no one gets too close. "
119 " I love you, Vix,” she said frankly. “But whatever made you think I want to follow your stars, and not my own? "
120 " net of human memory; it slipped past one strand and caught up another on its point, stitching up dark dreams out of the unlikeliest recollections. "