Jina Bacarr > Quotes

“Katie shook her head in dismay. “I thought being poor was the worst thing that could happen to a girl.”

“No, Katie,” the countess said in a clear voice. “The worst thing is to be in love with one man and have to marry another.”

—Katie O'Reilly to the Countess of Marbury”
― Jina Bacarr, Titanic Rhapsody

“Skip your fancy talk, Captain Lord Blackthorn. If I do your bidding, and I’m still discussing that with the Almighty, it will only be to save my arse.” Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhapsody”
― Jina Bacarr

“I was born Katie O’Reilly,” she began. “Poor Irish, but proud of it. I boarded the Titanic at Queenstown as a third class passenger with nothing more than the clothes on my back. And the law at my heels.” Titanic Rhapsody”
― Jina Bacarr

“If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.”
—Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn”
― Jina Bacarr, Titanic Rhapsody

“If there was one thing that made Captain Lord Jack Blackthorn smile more than holding a pretty woman in his arms, it was a winning hand at cards. To his dismay at the moment he had neither.”
― Jina Bacarr, Titanic Rhapsody

“And kind. Yes, never forget kind. It’s the cream in our porridge, the cinnamon in our strudel. That extra something that makes life wonderful.”
― Jina Bacarr, The Orphans of Berlin

“The US isn’t speeding up the immigration process in spite of what’s happening to Jews in Germany, which makes me ashamed to carry an American passport.”
― Jina Bacarr, The Orphans of Berlin