The Winter Palace QUOTES

1 " Where does destiny end and choice begin? "

― Eva Stachniak , The Winter Palace

3 " I was a tongue, a gazette. The bearer of "the truth of the whispers."
I knew of hollowed books, trunks with false bottoms, and the meanders of secret corridors. I knew how to open hidden drawers in your escritoire, how to unseal your letter and make you think no one had touched it. If I had been in your room, I left the hair around your lock the way you had tied it. If you trusted the silence of the night, I had overheard your secrets. "

― Eva Stachniak , The Winter Palace

5 " But victory is not everything. It’s just as crucial to consider what has been won. "

― Eva Stachniak , The Winter Palace

7 " You do not reason with a flood. You look for anything useful that might float your way. On "

― Eva Stachniak , The Winter Palace

9 " If you don't love, you cannot be betrayed. "

― Eva Stachniak , The Winter Palace

11 " – Um museu é um templo do conhecimento – dizia-me o meu pai –, um candeeiro aceso que envia os seus raios de luz para a escuridão, a prova da infinita variedade da vida. "

― Eva Stachniak , The Winter Palace