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1 " What does it matter if I’m afraid? Paris is waiting for her freedom, and she’ll need all the help she can get to find it. Fear doesn’t get to go down with us. Not tonight. "
― Kristy Cambron , The Paris Dressmaker
2 " Maybe that's the point. Beauty changes as we change, doesn't it? The things we thought we were supposed to do and be once upon a time, they evolve as we do. "
3 " Replacing the note and the page from the Bible back in the envelope, Rose folded her hands of the desk. "He gave you hope." Sandrine smiled, for Rose understood. "Oui. Christian knew I would need it in order to wait. He reminded me it is the noblest call to be brave, especially when everything within us would have us give in to our deepest fear. he tucked an address in our family Bible, right next to this page. "
4 " And Henri is why I mist do it. I have been asking myself who I intend to be when this war is over - the woman with much who gave little or the woman with little who gave much. That is always the question, isn't it, when we walk through the fire in our lives? And I now know the answer. "
5 " Before the war, a Parisian woman could not vote, work, or even open a checking account without her husband’s say so. To humiliate her now, propaganda posters fed the lie that she and her children had been abandoned in the necessities of life by the French men who’d run off to play savior by fighting a war they couldn’t possibly win. Now it was only the German soldier who could save her. It was not by a blitzkrieg that Hitler sought to take over. It was by a prolonged methodical effort to win the ravaged minds of the women left behind and to appropriate all that was distinctly Parisian - the arts, Haute couture, the very spirit of the French people - and repurpose it to become a higher form of the German ideal. In all of this flowed the callus and crafty undercurrent of fear. "
