"The Secrets We Kept" Quotes
"The Secrets We Kept" is a gripping historical novel about the CIA's mission to smuggle Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" out of the Soviet Union.
historical fiction | 368 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The only way to get through a difficult time was to get through it, to wait it out.
Sometimes the most difficult things in life were also the most important.
Books are at the intersection of some of the most essential human freedoms.
A person didn't have to be a writer to be a reader, and a reader didn't have to be a writer to be a person.
People always gave away the most when they were pretending not to give anything away at all.
The world was already full of stories, and those stories were already full of truth.
Sometimes it was easier to save a stranger than someone you loved.
In the end, a person had to make a choice: to be silent or to speak.
The truth was always easier to believe if it came from someone who had no reason to lie.
The human spirit was resilient, and love was even more so.
