Quotes About War

We're all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing that we learn in war

se dio cuenta de que el paisaje del alma de una mujer podía cambiar con la misma velocidad que un mundo en guerra.

A Nightingale in my own way.

France has surrendered, Isabelle. Certainly this fact has not escape you. Didn't you hear General de Gaulle? He said ... And who is this General de Gaulle? Why should we listen to him? Marechal Petain is a war hero and our leader. We have to trust our government. Are you joking, Vianne? The government in Vichy is collaborating with Hitler. How can you not understand this danger? Petain is wrong. Does one follow a leader blindly?

she'd hear in France. Surrender. Isabelle hobbled out of the room on her bloody feet and went into the backyard, needing air suddenly, unable to draw a decent breath. Surrender. France. To Hitler. "It must be for the best

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She gave him a pointed look. Did people say things like this to men? Women were integral to the Resistance. Why couldn't men see that? He

The Nightingale has sung

A broken heart hurts as badly in wartime as in peace. Say good-bye to your young man well.

Estaban en guerra. El tiempo era un lujo que nadie podía ya permitirse. El mañana se antojaba tan efímero como un beso en la oscuridad.

mobilized, Vianne. Along with most men between

That's motherhood in war, Herr Captain.

German woman yanked Isabelle forward. She stumbled along, her feet screaming in pain

A German walked up to her, his rifle

Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?

The man who'd come home from war was not the same man who'd boarded the plane for Vietnam.

There's danger in being principled in the midst of a war, but I believe that it's more dangerous not to be." "What do you mean?" He seemed to be searching for the words. "I mean that I would rather die knowing I tried to do the right thing than live knowing I had turned my back. Do you understand?

But if there's one thing I've learned since the start of the war, it's that as long as we believe, we take our faith with us, whatever we do, wherever we go, if our motives are pure.

No one was who they appeared to be in those days, mademoiselle. The Thierrys seemed to be collaborators, for example, so who would have thought that they were actually working with de Vogüé to undermine the Germans? At Piper-Heidsieck, the owners were hiding guns. At Krug, they were hiding pilots." He tapped the base of Liv's glass and added, "This champagne represents history, my dear. Heroism. Bravery. The people behind these wines helped save France.

But no good comes of giving away pieces of our heart in the midst of a war." Pere Clément waited until she looked up and met his eye. "It's dangerous, Eva." Eva knew then that he wasn't just talking about the children. She thought of Rémy, whom she'd been seeing less of lately as he became more involved in running errands for the underground. "It's more dangerous not to, I think.

But if there's one thing I've learned since the start of the war, it's as long as we believe, we take our faith with us. Whatever we do, wherever we go, if our motives are pure.

one thing I've learned since the start of the war, it's that as long as we believe, we take our faith with us, whatever we do, wherever we go, if our motives are pure.

But considering the way so many records were lost or destroyed in the war, it shouldn't be difficult to plant a few pieux mensonges, white lies.

Still, hope was a dangerous thing. It grew like a field of wildflowers within Eva, blossoming in all the spaces that had been filled with darkness and despair, until she began to believe with all her heart in the possibility that Rémy might have lived through the war after all.