The Paris Apartment Quotes

“Only beware the man who does not talk and the dog that does not bark.”
― Kelly Bowen, The Paris Apartment

“You only meet the love of your life once. And if you're fool enough not to recognize that sort of love and treasure it for what it will become, then you never deserved it in the first place.”
― Kelly Bowen, The Paris Apartment

“How much history will a family or a country lose when they lose the things that unite them? That tell the stories of their pasts?”
― Kelly Bowen, The Paris Apartment

“Further Reading Atwood, Kathryn. Women Heroes of World War II (Chicago Review Press, 2011). Copeland, Jack. Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park’s Code-Breaking Computers (Oxford University Press, 2010). Cragon, Harvey. From Fish to Colossus: How the German Lorenz Cipher was Broken at Bletchley Park (Cragon Books, 2003). Edsel, Robert. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hachette Book Group, 2009). Eisner, Peter. The Freedom Line (William Morrow, 2004). Helm, Sarah. A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE (Hachette UK Book Group, 2005). Hodges, Andrew. Alan Turing: The Enigma (Random House UK, 2014). Mazzeo, Tilar. The Hotel on Place Vendôme: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris (HarperCollins, 2015). Mulley, Clare. The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville (St. Martin’s Press, 2012). O’Keefe, David. One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada’s Tragedy at Dieppe (Knopf Canada, 2013). Pearson, Judith. The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America’s Greatest Female Spy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). Ronald, Susan. Hitler’s Art Thief (St. Martin’s Press, 2015). Rosbottom, Ronald. When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation 1940–1944 (Hachette Book Group, 2014). Sebba, Anne. Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation (St. Martin’s Press, 2016). Stevenson, William. Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II (Arcade Publishing, 2007). Vaughan, Hal. Sleeping With the Enemy: Coco Chanel’s Secret War (Random House, Inc., 2011). Witherington Cornioley, Pearl; edited by Atwood, Kathryn. Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent (Chicago Review Press, 2015).
From the Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee/Target Intelligence Committee (TICOM) Archives. NW32823—Demonstration of Kesselring’s “Fish Train” (TICOM/M-5, July 8, 1945).”
― Kelly Bowen, The Paris Apartment

“Estelle watched the travellers as they exited the train station, each moving with a grim swiftness that she had never seen before the war had started, because in the cheerful morning sunshine, the Gare du Nord was a terrifying place. It was a locale where the grey blight converged, a morass of Wehrmacht, SS, and Gestapo uniforms, all peppered with black spots of police. It was a place where tragedy and casual violence struck when one least expected it. To avoid attention, those who flowed around the occupiers were careful to keep their gaze on the ground, answered questions with single syllables only when necessary, and had their papers in a place from which they could be produced without delay. Only misfortune came from lingering in and around a Paris train station these days.”
― Kelly Bowen, The Paris Apartment

“One should never notice your cosmetics, Lia. Unless, of course, you only wish to be noticed but not seen.”
― Kelly Bowen, The Paris Apartment

“Any man who would wish to extinguish the fire that burns so bright in you is no man at all. Whatever dreams you wish to chase, I will chase them with you.”
― Kelly Bowen, The Paris Apartment

“Make it count, Sophie. Every day after this one. Make it all count.”
― Kelly Bowen, The Paris Apartment

“And fourteen hours after she had become a wife, Sophie became a widow.”
― Kelly Bowen, The Paris Apartment

“But experience has taught me that when one hears hooves, one does not generally look for zebras.”
― Kelly Bowen, The Paris Apartment

“the world to judge.” The dancer’s voice softened. “I get it. Because it’s no different than what I do each night I step out on that stage and perform for an audience. No different than an author who tells a story, a composer who writes a concerto, an actor who portrays a character. All of us not knowing how we might be received.”
― Kelly Bowen, The Paris Apartment