The Second Lady Quotes

“reception room. Mr. Razin will bring you further instructions." No sooner had she left the office than Petrov pointed his chair toward Alex Razin. "Well, Razin, what do you think?" "Of her? As you said—she is nearly perfect. Let her hair grow longer, eliminate the small cheek scar, shorten the nose slightly, and she is Billie Bradford." "No, I mean my story. Did she believe it?”
― Irving Wallace, The Second Lady

“Oh, sorry,” he said, bringing his mind back to their conversation. “This time we have to maintain a bluff to win. Not easy. Complicated. I’ll explain it all to you one day.” She pretended exasperation. “Not fair, Andrew. Don’t treat me like a second-class citizen. You’ve always confided in me. I’ve confided in you. You’re interested in what I do every day. Well, I’m just as interested in what you do. We’re a team, Andrew. We share. So don’t suddenly go chauvinist and relegate me to the kitchen. Tell me the problems you’re dealing with. I want to share them with you.” “I don’t mean to withhold anything from”
― Crossroad Press, The Second Lady

“The one who tried to beat Jules Verne’s around-the-world-in-eighty-days record?” “The same. Verne’s Phileas Fogg did it in eighty days in fiction. Nellie Bly did it in fact in 1889 and 1890. She went around the world in seventy-two days. Anyway, before that, while just starting out as a cub reporter on the New York World, Nellie Bly undertook a story about insane people who had been committed to Blackwell’s Island and how they were being treated. But instead of doing the story in an orthodox way, Nellie disguised herself in ragged clothes, gave herself a deranged look, feigned insanity, and got herself committed to Blackwell’s Island. As a patient, she saw the miserable conditions and the cruelty to the other patients firsthand. When she got out, she wrote two front-page stories about the experience. This exposé made her famous overnight.”
― Crossroad Press, The Second Lady