The Rose Code

The best lies have the most truth.”

Be careful what you wish for

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?

Please tell me broken hearts aren’t fatal. Please tell me this feeling won’t kill me.

Mistress implies a kept woman, and nobody’s keeping Beth anywhere she doesn’t want to be.”

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?

In war, art is a balm.”

Those like herself who had lost husbands, fiancés, boyfriends, were so raw in their own grief

Grief didn’t make you noble. It made you selfish and hateful.

Beth’s mind had been knotted up for weeks in the Spy Enigma