The Lost Girls Of Paris Quotes
"It’s impossible for our agents to fit in now."
"We often find purpose where we least expect it—or not."
"A lot of our boys are fighting. There’s a whole squadron who are spitfire pilots—Sikhs, Hindus—but you don’t hear about that."
"Six weeks. That’s the average life expectancy of a radio operator in France. Six weeks."
"Just because you don’t know why you’ve come, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be here."
"We aren’t spies. Espionage is the business of MI6."
"You’ve got the proper credentials. But in training you’ll be tested to see if you can actually put them into use."
"Every one of us is scared and alone. You’ve said it aloud once. Now bury it and never mention it again."
"You’re fighting for her and the world she will live in."
"There was a time to be seen and a time to keep hidden from sight."
"Your transmissions are critically important in keeping communications open."
"You must never neglect the importance of open-source intelligence."
"You see, we are trying to make things as difficult as possible for the Germans."
"She could protect these girls in a way she hadn’t been able to her own sister."
"Fear is always the first instinct—and rightly so. It’s what keeps us on our guard—and alive."
"I think women can be just what the operation needs, if they are good enough—and committed to the task."
"This region is one where we haven’t had many local contacts."
"It’s the nature of the work, always on the move."
"The information we send to London is critical. They need to know that we are making everything as hard as possible for the Germans to respond when the invasion comes."
"Once it works, if it works, we won’t be able to hide in the shadows anymore."
"You’ll be no good to anyone if you’re dead from exhaustion."
"I’ve slept in much worse places, I assure you."
"I met Reba when I was sixteen. I’ve never loved another."
"You can’t blame yourself. You were trying to keep them safe."
"Doesn’t matter in the end, does it? They’re dead—as surely as if they had gone to the camps."
"Your daughter will be very proud when she is old enough to understand."
"I like to imagine they were together at the end, Reba holding the boys."
"I thought it best to get them out of Europe altogether because of the work I was doing."
"Nacht und Nebel," Mark said, "means ‘Night and Fog.’"
"They had been living in Guernsey. I thought it best to get them out of Europe altogether."
"He wanted no evidence of their existence left behind."
"Eleanor was different, cagey. You always got a sense that she was keeping a secret."
"She was the person you’d want looking after you if you were in the field."
"You’d better," he grumbled. "My cousin would kill me if anything happened to you."
"I’ll take the next transport," she said firmly.
"You love him, don’t you?" Lisette asked bluntly.
"But if she didn’t go now, she knew she might never leave at all."
"Prayer flowed from her like water, for Julian and the other agents who might still be at large, for her family."
"The clustered houses seemed tiny and claustrophobic after the teeming streets of Paris."
"She put the crystals in and turned the dial. Nothing."
"A quiet knock. Marie froze. Someone was here."
"Pointed at her chest was the barrel of a policeman’s gun."
"The air was crisp and lovely and the Washington Monument beckoned in the distance."
"The girls never came home to their families."
"Marcia would have been nervous, caught off guard."
"Those girls never came home to their families."
"The notion that Eleanor had betrayed the girls had seemed impossible."
"I had always known, of course, that her failure to push harder had stopped them from finding out before it was too late."
"I saw Kriegler's face in the files of Norgeby House, details of his sadistic treatment of prisoners."
"Josie's lips formed a single word, unmistakable: run."
"Marie watched Julian die, held him in her arms."
"The truth, once out, would spell the end, for the Director and herself, for all of them."
"Eleanor died fighting for her girls, just as she had in life."
"She reached the safety of her hotel room and sank down into a chair."
"Sometimes a few must be sacrificed for the greater good."
"That governments could do such things to their own people..."
"No one wanted to think about the past. It all changed, you see, the players and the sides."
"Except Eleanor. She wouldn’t leave it alone."
"You can always tell the ones who are trying to flee."
"So much of the truth had died with Eleanor and would never be known."
"Life is too short to let something like this pass us by."
"I have to put him back on the train, as if none of this ever happened."