"He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I always thought it was what I wanted, to be loved an admired. Now I think perhaps, I'd like to be known" (Chapter 1).
"A girl leading pilots across the Pyrenees? Will wonders never cease?"
"She wanted to kill him. She wanted to kill herself. What would Antoine think of her now? Truthfully, the biggest part of her wanted to curl up in a ball in some dark corner and never show her face again. But even that, shame, was a luxury these days. How could she worry about herself, when Isabel was in prison?" (Chapter 34).
"'Why have I never heard anything about all this? And not just from you. Sophie never said a word. Hell, I didn't even know that people escaped over the mountains or that there was a concentration camp just for women who resisted the Nazis.'
"'Men tell stories,' I say. It is the truest, simplist answer to his question. 'Women get on with it. For us, it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war. And when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started over.'" (Chapter 39).
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