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The Alice Network QUOTES

The Alice Network QUOTES

1 " You think there are no idiots in the intelligence business, that your superiors are all brilliant men who understand the game? [...] This business is rife with idiots. They play with lives and they play badly, and when people like you die as a result, they shrug and as 'Risks have to be taken in wartime.' You'd really march yourself into a firing squad for that kind of fool? "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

2 " I am telling you that order is absurd. You think there are no idiots in the intelligence business, that your superiors are all brilliant men who understand the game?” A furious hand waved in Major Allenton’s direction. “This business is rife with idiots. They play with lives and they play badly, and when people like you die as a result, they shrug and say, ‘Risks have to be taken in wartime. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

3 " Make this m-more interesting, or I'm going to drink a lot faster. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

4 " What did it matter if something scared you, when it simply had to be done? "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

5 " Hope was such a painful thing, far more painful than rage. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

6 " 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. Lili was the latter. Which are you? "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

7 " Poetry is like passion--it should not be merely pretty; it should overwhelm and bruise. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

8 " Fleurs du mal,” Eve heard herself saying, and shivered. “What?” “Baudelaire. We are not flowers to be plucked and shielded, Captain. We are flowers who flourish in evil. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

9 " 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. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

10 " Steel blades such as you and I do not measure against the standards for ordinary women "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

11 " I will not tell you one single solitary fact about my work, my friends, or the woman I was arested with. But I will tell you this, Rene Bordelon. You're a gullible fool. You're a terribly lover. And I hate Baudelaire. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

12 " ...You know why none of us judge?' I bumped his shoulder with mine until he finally looked down at me. 'Because none of us have the goddamn right to look down our noses at anyone else's sins. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

13 " The idea made her sick and scared, but so what? Why did it matter if something scared you, when it simply had to be done anyway? "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

14 " Boys got to do whatever they wanted, and girls got to sit around looking pretty. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

15 " Life ought to be more like a play; the entrances and exits would be a lot cleaner. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

16 " ...but nightmares were easier to bear when there were warm arms in the dark to burrow into. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

17 " It is facile to condemn the French for giving in to the Nazis too easily when many French citizens would have still borne the horrendous scars of the first occupation, would have clearly remembered having to stand back while German sentries robbed them of everything but the nearly inedible ration bread because the only alternative was to be arrested, beaten, or shot. The French survived not one but two brutal occupations in a span of less than forty years, and deserve more credit for their flinty endurance than they receive. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

18 " Many a gem lies hidden in darkness and oblivion "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

19 " How do I know what I'm up for if you won't tell me what this is about?'
'It's about a friend,' she said simply. 'A blond woman with a sunshine laugh and the courage to light the world on fire. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network

20 " 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 to solve for. "

― Kate Quinn , The Alice Network