Bitter experience Quote by John le Carré

“Girls were happy to be married. Olga had glowed when her husband put a jewel on her finger and took her away. Maybe Vasya…

— Katherine Arden

“dangers of her past. She cared about what he provided in an otherwise dangerous world. “Russia is a hard place,” she said quietly, “or…

— Danielle Steel

“Probably she said yes. Afterwards she was not sure. She saw his scared gaze lift and stare at the approaching bus. She saw an…

— John le Carré

“He used to tell her... that it was because Russia had left a chill in his bones. Lola Plum believed it, only because sometimes…

— Shannon Noelle Long

“You had two prerequisites.” Regin plopped down on a snowbank. “And I do believe I have Russian ex-mil contacts, and I speak the language-“…

— Kresley Cole

“Nothing will get you anywhere with me," I exclaimed. "I don't know about that." He put on an introspective look that was both unexpected…

— Richelle Mead

“She’d known from the minute she’d admitted her inexperience that Sasha had interpreted it to mean she was some sweet, innocent thing. He’d written…

— Alisha Rai

“Her superfluous attention to such accounts of the foreign politics as are transmitted to us by the daily prints, and her willingness to talk…

— Samuel Johnson

“You don’t like me, do you?” she asked suddenly and pathetically, just like a small child. Sergei did not look at her but merely…

— William Axtell

“... I retraced my steps, walked up to her, and in another moment would have certainly said, "Madam!" if I had not known that…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Who was I to do this? I was Adrian Ivashkov. And I was about to kick some ass.”

— Richelle Mead

“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She had ample…

— Stacy Schiff