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In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. Today’s young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.
Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.
always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I’d like to be known.
“Ah, a nightingale.”
Why was it so easy for men in the world to do as they wanted and so difficult for women?
“Don’t think about who they are. Think about who you are and what sacrifices you can live with and what will break you.”
You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet.
From now on, she was Juliette Gervaise, code name the Nightingale.
