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“Men tell stories. Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“We’re standing in the ashes of a war like no other—if we don’t try harder to see the shades of gray involved, we’ll find ourselves in the thick of a new one.”
― Kate Quinn, The Huntress

“Nuestros destinos pudieron ser éstos o pudieron ser otros del todo distintos porque lo que de nosotros fue en ningún sitio quedó recogido. Tal vez ni siquiera llegamos a existir. O quizá sí lo hicimos, pero nadie percibió nuestra presencia. Al fin y al cabo, nos mantuvimos siempre en el envés de la historia, activamente invisibles en aquel tiempo que vivimos entre costuras.”
― María Dueñas, The Time in Between

“I once read that life should not be about the number of breaths you take, but the number of moments that take your breath away.”
― Alexandra Potter, The Love Detective