The Lost Girls of Paris Quotes

“Create a story of which you will be proud.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“The truth is sometimes the very opposite from what you expect it to be.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always
be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“You know, when you were little and you got hurt or scared, I could make it all better with a hug or treat. But when your children get older, it becomes less and less easy to heal their wounds.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“And once out, Eleanor thought silently, you can’t put it back any more than returning a mist of perfume to a bottle once it has been sprayed.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always
be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” —Winston Churchill”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“You kept this from me.” “I didn’t include you,” he corrected. As if that made a difference.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone. She’d learned that the hard way. She had tried to join a war widows group in New York shortly after she had arrived. She’d hoped she would find some connection that would help her break through the wall that seemed to have formed around her heart, but as she sat among those sorry women who had supposedly known what she had gone through, she had never felt more alone.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember’d; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed that they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“instead.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“I had no choice. I was acting on orders.” How many times had she read that in the reports of captured German war criminals, who said they were powerless, that they had no choice but to commit the atrocities by their own hands?”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“The Geneva Convention expressly prohibits women combatants. ...We’d be risking the lives of wives, daughters and mothers.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“Women had risen up to take on all sorts of roles on the home front, not just nursing and local guard. They manned antiaircraft guns and flew planes. Why was the notion that they could do this, too, so hard to understand?”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“Churchill had authorized the creation of Special Operations Executive, or SOE, and charged it with the order to “set Europe ablaze” through sabotage and subversion. ... Churchill had said to set Europe ablaze, but
the hard truth was that innocents got burned.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“Kriegler’s assertion that the Germans had told London”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“If not for the second-worst mistake of Grace Healey’s life, she never would have found the suitcase.”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris

“New York alone after losing Tom had been an adventure. But going all the way to Washington sounded preposterous. “I couldn’t possibly.” “Why not?” he challenged. “You’ve hit a dead end with the consulate. There’s nothing more to be learned here. Otherwise, you’re stuck with the photos. Why not take a chance and see what we can learn?” We. Grace squirmed. “Why are you doing this?” she asked. “Maybe I’m curious, too. Or maybe I’m just not ready to say goodbye to you,” he blurted. Grace was surprised. She had liked Mark enough the few times she’d met him previously, mostly because Tom”
― Pam Jenoff, The Lost Girls of Paris