The Diamond Eye

by Kate Quinn

cajoled

sluice

upend

nomenclature

Sound sexy

sinew,

A sniper puts her life in the hands of her partner, night after night after night. He had better be someone she trusts more than a husband.

True

A sniper puts her life in the hands of her partner, night after night after night. He had better be someone she trusts more than a husband.

Very true

pliant.

harangue

If you had, you would have done what I did.

Emotionally, I will react the same way as Lyudmila. In defence of our country, the motherland. The big notion in this story is that facism and communism conflict happning when Hitler was being greedy to expand his territory in Russia and little that he expected how the russian reacted.

“Knowledge, to light the path for humankind,” I said at last. “And this”—patting my rifle—“to protect humankind when we lose that path.” “You lead us down the path,” Kostia said, “I’ll have your back.”

Nice one. A noble concept.

Sevastopol,

I watched Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning yesterday. This is their mission for part two.

didactic

innocuous

careens

seethe,

Kinder, Kirche, Küche

Let's find out

lugubrious

immaculate,

feral

scrum;

paroxysm

cordon.

chantey;

innocuous

Snipers must make themselves calm in order to succeed, and that is why women are good at sharpshooting. Because there is not a woman alive who has

Quotes: I want to have that strength. May Allah grant me that

not learned how to eat rage in order to appear calm.

Quote continues

prig

“You haven’t submitted the necessary paperwork to your company commander, and that’s me, so dying’s going to have to wait. Hold steady—”

Kitsenko & Kostia. Far better than Alexei

innocuous

“The only thing I was shocked by was the sign on the carriage saying FOR WHITES ONLY.” The girl sniper forked a mushroom off her plate. “It’s a strange thing to see in a country that started with ‘All men are created equal.’”

Wow that was deep. Hello.. Racism is bad

Wow . That's Deep

throes

infinitesimal,

writhe

gristle

“I display a distressing tendency to levity and bourgeois sentimentalism, or so my Komsomol leader told me, growing up. I will never rise high in the Party unless I strive for objectivity in my personal relations, rather than mirth.”

My my my words.

clangor

A golden, glorious then on the other side of our bleak, bloodstained now.

She's Trying to describe the harsh reality

extemporized

“The thing you have to know in your bones is that you can never miss. Not ever, not in war, not in civilian life, or that mistake will be your downfall.”

Well said

supposition.

din

eschew

lathe

miscreant—”

bulwark

“You are never getting thanks from me. Not for doing your sworn duty by a wounded man. If you did—”

Listening to Lembaran Juzuk Cinta. It felt real feeling down like that.

maim.

strafing