The Secret Stealers Quotes

“It’s amazing what you can get away with when men don’t think you’ve got a brain in your head.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“Enjoying life right now? It is its own kind of resistance.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“No matter how long it’s been since you’ve seen each other, the friendship remains the same as it’s always been, like no time has passed at all.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“I had grown to understand that being fearless was not living without fear, but pushing through and doing what needed to be done in spite of it.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“With certain friends, time folds in on itself. No matter how long it’s been since you’ve seen each other, the friendship remains the same as it’s always been, like no time has passed at all.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“But women like that? Who don’t help other women? Who only view them as competition? They are just terrible.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“I had never realized before how physically draining grief could be.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who live in it after we are gone?”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“carrying suitcases of makeup samples with a hidden compartment for the messages we would really be delivering. I was”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“being fearless was not living without fear, but pushing through and doing what needed to be done in spite of it.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“smart”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“Bruno Richter.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“Herbert Keppler.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“It’s okay to stumble, as long as you fall forward. —Major General William J. Donovan, founder of the US Office of Strategic Services”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who live in it after we are gone? —Winston Churchill, former prime minister of the United Kingdom”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“When you’ve experienced war as much as I have, you realize that some things—no matter how many times you relive them in your mind—you couldn’t have prevented no matter what. You’re only one person.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“The Talmud says living well is the best revenge. Enjoying life right now? It is its own kind of resistance.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“In Catholicism, peacocks represent renewal. In Buddhism, they symbolize wisdom and long life.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“Julia, I’ve been meaning to tell you I have an old friend from Boston Latin who’s an OSS officer stationed in Ceylon. His name is Paul Child, terrific fella. He’s been there for several months. Please look him up if you want someone to give you the lay of the land.” “Paul Child. Let me write that down,” Julia said, grabbing a napkin and rummaging through her purse for a pen. “I will certainly do that, thank you.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers

“The group of us would spend our weekends lingering for hours on café patios, smoking and drinking cheap red wine, or having picnics on the banks of the Seine, trying to ignore the drumbeat of war on France’s doorstep.”
― Jane Healey, The Secret Stealers