The Lost Spy Quotes

“Sometimes the best life is a complicated one.”
― Kate Moira Ryan, The Lost Spy

“What do you think we would have done if we had been living in Germany during those years? Would we have gone along with all the hatred?” Margaret asked. “I’d like to believe that we’d be part of the Resistance in some way.” “But would we have? An entire nation went mad and no one can come up with a reasonable explanation as to why. Don’t get me wrong: there are a million reasons; but there isn’t one that addresses how ordinary people with any sort of moral compass can do such horrible things.” “That is a question for the ages. Everyone says never again, and yet it will happen again and again,”
― Kate Moira Ryan, The Lost Spy

“Maybe all that was left after the war were damaged men.”
― Kate Moira Ryan, The Lost Spy

“But Herr Wiesenthal, I’m Catholic.” “Miss Moran, the Church can be very dangerous when it feels threatened.”
― Kate Moira Ryan, The Lost Spy

“I come from the land where Anna Karenina was written. I believe in love, even if it is doomed.”
― Kate Moira Ryan, The Lost Spy

“You see, if you ask an American how they are, they say fine, but if you ask a Russian, well, let’s just say there’s a reason why War and Peace is such a long book.”
― Kate Moira Ryan, The Lost Spy

“Dinner was a desultory mash of gray meat and root vegetables.”
― Kate Moira Ryan, The Lost Spy

“Rationing still had an iron grip on postwar Britain. The global conflict had drained every last penny out of the dwindling empire.”
― Kate Moira Ryan, The Lost Spy

“The Catholic Church hadn’t helped the Jews during the war, even though Pope Pius XII had been informed early on in the war of their plight.”
― Kate Moira Ryan, The Lost Spy

“Sometimes I don’t reflect on the consequences”
― Kate Moira Ryan, The Lost Spy

“We all die, you know. And the life you have or don’t have is not always determined by you.”
― Kate Moira Ryan, The Lost Spy