Kate Furnivall > Quotes

“She always paid attention to fingers rather than faces because they told so much more. People remembered to guard their faces. They forgot their hands. Her own were small, though strong and supple from all the hours of piano playing, but what use was that now? For the first time she understood what real danger does to the human mind, as flat white fear froze the coils of her brain.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“The sight of you brings joy to my heart and makes my blood thunder in my veins. I know not how long I will be allowed to stand here. So there are words I must say. That you are the moon and the stars to me, and the air I breathe. To love you is to live. So if I die.... I will still live in you.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Russian Concubine

“Water was a state of mind. If you think it your friend when you swim in the river or wash away the dirt, why call it your enemy when it comes from the heavens? From the cup of the gods themselves.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Russian Concubine

“Elena gave a low laugh. "Maleeshka, little one, it's me you're talking to, not the Cossack. I am a whore and I know the smell of men and the smell of sex. You stink of both.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Girl from Junchow

“To sjećanje izmamilo joj je osmijeh na lice i ona je pustila da joj misli polete prema njemu kao pčele koje slijede neodoljivi miris orhideje.Nije se borila protiv toga.Ne ovaj put.Samo noćas,dopustit će si slatko,bestežinsko zadovoljstvo da sklizne natrag u prošlost.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“...ne možeš loviti prošlost kako bi izbjegla budućnost...”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“...je li se i Bog tako osjećao kad je stvorio čovjeka?Da je stvorio prekrasan stroj za ubijanje?”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“Odreci ga se.Nikad nećete biti sretni zajedno.Ne mogu,kao što ne mogu ni prestati disati.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“he was sick of the accidents, sick to his stomach. It was the darkness workers didn't see things. The shifts were too long, the tools too blunt, the wage too low.

And he was the one they blamed.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“Naslonila je glavu na prozorsko staklo i udahnula.Toliko je dugo čekala da je zaboravila koliko je uzbudljivo živjeti u sadašnjosti.Imati ono što želiš.Htjeti ono što imaš.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Girl from Junchow

“I'd rather have your lifeblood tainted than spilled on a forest floor.'
He said no more, just held her. 'I'm not worth it,' she whispered at last.
'Who says so?'
'I do.'
'Then you don't know what love is.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“Pogledala je dolje u svoje isprepletene prste i šaptom pitala :Koliko čovjek smije riskirati za ljubav?”
― Kate Furnivall, The Jewel of St. Petersburg

“Choose.
She closed the door and stamped her feet on the icy ground, smiling as she drew in a deep breath of Russian air and felt her heart race. There was a future ahead, one that she and Chang An Lo would carve together. It was a risk, but life itself was a risk. That much she'd learned form Russia, that much she'd learned from Jens. With a farewell wave to Alexei and a final touch of the Chinese amulet around her neck to tempt the protection of Chang An Lo's gods one last time, she looped her bag onto her shoulder and headed for the gateway.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Girl from Junchow

“directly”
― Kate Furnivall, The Survivors

“banged”
― Kate Furnivall, Shadows on the Nile: 'Breathtaking historical fiction' The Times

“It’s safer. Not to exist.”
― Kate Furnivall, Child of the Ruins

“Magdalena Huber’s face was not accustomed to smiling much but she waved us to a pair of armchairs beside the unlit woodstove with old-world courtesy. Her manner was that of a headmistress. Which is what I knew she had once been. Her mousy hair was swept up into a thick old-fashioned bun on top of her head, adding to her already exceptional height. Her skin was unusually pink and she was painfully thin, but almost everyone in Germany was painfully thin”
― Kate Furnivall, The Survivors

“temperatures,”
― Kate Furnivall, The Girl from Junchow

“You divide every piece of time into tiny portions and you tell yourself, I can survive just this small portion. That's how you get through a day. No past, no future. Just this moment.”
― Kate Furnivall, The Red Scarf

“A person's books are private, not to be poked around by others at will.”
― Kate Furnivall, Shadows on the Nile

“sliding her arm through Isabella’s. ‘Now, where’s your family?’ Isabella asked. The woman nodded towards a wiry, assertive”
― Kate Furnivall, The Italian Wife

“now were focused with surprise on Lydia. The moment was over. Lydia”
― Kate Furnivall, The Russian Concubine