The Jewel of St. Petersburg Quotes

“She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They forgot their hands. Her own were small, though strong and supple from all the hours of piano playing, but what use was that now? For the first time she understood what real danger does to the human mind, as flat white fear froze the coils of her brain.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“To sjećanje izmamilo joj je osmijeh na lice i ona je pustila da joj misli polete prema njemu kao pčele koje slijede neodoljivi miris orhideje.Nije se borila protiv toga.Ne ovaj put.Samo noćas,dopustit će si slatko,bestežinsko zadovoljstvo da sklizne natrag u prošlost.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“I'd rather have your lifeblood tainted than spilled on a forest floor.'
He said no more, just held her. 'I'm not worth it,' she whispered at last.
'Who says so?'
'I do.'
'Then you don't know what love is.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“he was sick of the accidents, sick to his stomach. It was the darkness workers didn't see things. The shifts were too long, the tools too blunt, the wage too low.

And he was the one they blamed.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“Pogledala je dolje u svoje isprepletene prste i šaptom pitala :Koliko čovjek smije riskirati za ljubav?”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“...je li se i Bog tako osjećao kad je stvorio čovjeka?Da je stvorio prekrasan stroj za ubijanje?”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“Odreci ga se.Nikad nećete biti sretni zajedno.Ne mogu,kao što ne mogu ni prestati disati.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“...ne možeš loviti prošlost kako bi izbjegla budućnost...”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg