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61 " If I teach you anything let it be how to move through the world without making a sound, Nina Borisnova. If they can't hear you coming, they'll never lay hands on you. "
― Kate Quinn , The Huntress
62 " You fear nothing, you get stupid. It's better to fear one thing, Nina Borisnova. Put all the terror into that, and it leaves you careful enough. "
63 " See enough horrors, the words run out. "
64 " Like peasants in the tsarist days getting a glimpse of God, only Comrade Stalin had more power than God. "
65 " ...and you wanted to cut her to ribbons to avenge me?"From Nina that was practically a Valentine."But I don't, I just disarm her. I think maybe you are right Luchik, justice over vengeance.""Bloody hell, woman, have I actually made a dent in you?"She jabbed him in the ribs."I make a few in you, too."Yes, you have, Ian thought, and not just the fact that I'm addicted to your paperback regency tosh. "
66 " Ian took a knee beside the man, raising his chin with one finger. Waited until those red-rimmed eyes met his own. “I have no interest in your orders,” he said quietly. “I have no interest if it was legal at the time. I have no interest in your excuses. You’re a cringing soulless trigger-pulling lackey, and I will see you face a judge. "
67 " You worry about the next war,” Ian had replied evenly. “Someone has to sweep up the muck of the last one. "
68 " You can’t trump a Russian when it comes to suffering,” Tony grumbled, peeling into the Boston traffic. “They have always suffered more, and in minus-twenty-degree weather, and in a gulag to boot. You just can’t win. "
69 " grief was beginning to be overlaid by the first layer of skin and time. "
70 " And don’t you dare say that all work and no play makes Jordan a dull girl,” Jordan added. “I hate that saying. Mostly people use it because they want me doing things for them, not for myself.” “Besides which, they’re wrong. Work doesn’t make you a dull girl. Work makes you an absolutely fascinating girl. "
71 " lifeboat, and I nearly died of envy. I absolutely longed to get torpedoed.” “As long as you got away with some good shots of it?” “Which would then make the cover of LIFE, yes. That’s exactly how the fantasy went. Then maybe I’d marry Ernest Hemingway and live a life of action and glamour.” Jordan paused, as a connection drifted into place. The journalists and photographers she’d idolized, all dash and danger and war zones, "