Krystyna Skarbek Quotes

For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story is, surprisingly, little known today. ~ Clare Mulley

May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they got shot. I should love to do it and I like to jump out of a plane even every day. ~ Christine Granville

Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great. ~ Clare Mulley

Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake. ~ Clare Mulley

She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it. ~ Clare Mulley

I was a big philosopher when I saw on the chamber pot. I liked to sit and think and listen. ~ Krystyna Chiger

Note to self: jogging on trails with disgruntled dogs and duck hunters will make you run faster. ~ Krystyna Faroe

The only solace was that Wepke seemed to appreciate how fine a piano he was about to receive and that he could also play it beautifully. It was the poetic way to look at the injustice, to see that at least the piano would be enjoyed and put to beautiful use. ~ Krystyna Chiger

The day burned orange, like a photographic negative, and it would be a few days more before my eyes could adjust. It was like something out of science fiction. ~ Krystyna Chiger