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Famous Quotes By Sandra Gulland

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Now I have discovered where it is that she goes. It's the guillotine that draws her, across the river in the Place Louis Quinze- Place de la Revolution now-where daily crowds gather, the vendors selling lemonade, the children playing prisoner's base, the old ladies gossiping as the heads fall. — Sandra Gulland

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Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining. — Sandra Gulland

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I lowered myself into an armchair. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust. All that remained of my life was in my lap. I sat for a time thus, as still as the mute objects that surrounded me. How little it all meant, in the end. — Sandra Gulland

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Each moment of life is a step toward death. — Sandra Gulland

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He calls me Josephine. He says I'm an angel, a saint, his good lucky star. I know I'm no angel, but in truth I have begun to like this Josephine he sees. She is intelligent; she amuses; she is pleasing. She is grace and charm and heart. Unlike Rose; scared, haunted and needy. Unlike Rose with her sad life. — Sandra Gulland

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The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head. — Sandra Gulland

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For the king, love like an alter fire, eternal — Sandra Gulland

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I nodded yes. Another deceit. I have become a person I do not care for. — Sandra Gulland

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Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear. — Sandra Gulland

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I kissed his cheek. "My King." I swooped into the courtly curtsy he'd taught me as a girl, regally kicking an imaginary train aside as I turned to go. He was laughing silently as I left. For a moment I saw that spark again. I did not say goodbye. — Sandra Gulland

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I play out the cards. They say: This is Heaven, this is Hell. It is one. — Sandra Gulland

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My other treasure was my virginity, and I'd thought of selling it too, years back, to the steward's hunchback son. I had refrained, holding out -I told myself- for a higher bidder. Now I fancied myself ruler of an impregnable realm. — Sandra Gulland

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I want to go with you," I told him.
"To Egypt?" I whispered.
"Wherever you go. — Sandra Gulland

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I confess that I enjoy this vocation, in spite of my sex. I feel a certain thrill, as if I were visiting a lover. But it is money I court, money that woos me, and the intoxicating power to earn a very great deal. — Sandra Gulland

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A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late. — Sandra Gulland

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We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous. — Sandra Gulland

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The Confessions of Catherine de Medici is a dramatic, epic novel of an all-too-human woman whose strength and passion propelled her into the center of grand events. Meticulously-researched, this engrossing novel offers a fresh portrait of a queen who has too often been portrayed as a villain. Bravo Mr. Gortner! — Sandra Gulland

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You are thinking of the past." I put my arms around her. She'd risen from childbed too soon. "We are the past," she said. — Sandra Gulland