Diana R. Chambers > Quotes

“We’re Americans. We pull together.”
― Diana R. Chambers, The Secret War of Julia Child

“Until the fascist monsters are in the ground, we have to live with our allies.”
― Diana R. Chambers, The Secret War of Julia Child

“Birds? His scholarly demeanor was good cover for a spy, just as Maugham’s writing obscured his WWI work for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service. Noël Coward gadded about the world, entertaining the troops like Marlene Dietrich, both using their glamour to deflect attention from their clandestine activities, willingly putting themselves in harm’s way.”
― Diana R. Chambers, The Secret War of Julia Child

“A playwright, composer, actor, and director, Coward was also a society figure widely viewed as flamboyant, even frivolous. Yet she had been privy to some of the intel he’d collected during his musical tours around the front lines. He was in Ceylon now to entertain the troops on the”
― Diana R. Chambers, The Secret War of Julia Child

“A party without cake is just a meeting.”
― Diana R. Chambers, The Secret War of Julia Child

“HMS Victorious. For all Julia knew, Coward could be spying on a guest here, this evening. Not that she’d put herself in his league, but she admired him. He did his duty despite personal risk.”
― Diana R. Chambers, The Secret War of Julia Child