Why couldn’t hearts simply be reset, dialed back until they felt no more than the usual sympathy one felt for any man heading to war?
Habitante de librohas quoted7 months ago
Please tell me broken hearts aren’t fatal. Please tell me this feeling won’t kill me.
Habitante de librohas quoted7 months ago
Mistress implies a kept woman, and nobody’s keeping Beth anywhere she doesn’t want to be.”
Habitante de librohas quoted7 months ago
Trains and train stations—what a thing they become in wartime. How many heartbreaks and homecomings, ecstasies and agonies, have we experienced with a rocking floor, a platform crowd, and a sweaty ticket clutched in hand?
Habitante de librohas quoted7 months ago
In war, art is a balm.”
Habitante de librohas quoted7 months ago
Those like herself who had lost husbands, fiancés, boyfriends, were so raw in their own grief
Habitante de librohas quoted7 months ago
Grief didn’t make you noble. It made you selfish and hateful.
Habitante de librohas quoted8 months ago
Beth’s mind had been knotted up for weeks in the Spy Enigma