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61 " Many exchange vows, rings, and kisses, but let us exchange hearts. That way you will never be alone; I will always be with you, for you will have, and be, my own dear heart. "
― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette
62 " Tell your papa I’ll call upon him soon. Mr. Jefferson is still very much needed here in Paris, where his revolution remains undone. In my study, I have a copy of his Declaration of Independence in half a frame. The other half of the frame is empty. One day, with his help, it will house a Declaration of French Rights and they’ll stand side by side, like proud brothers. Like France and America. Like your father and me.” Ordinarily, "
― Stephanie Dray , America's First Daughter
63 " Perhaps democracy would always naturally devolve to a state when only a man like Burr—a greedy libertine without any care for what the world might say about him—would stand for election. For what gentleman could ever "
― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
64 " Tom's lovemaking gave me a pleasure devoid of sentimentality, wrapping a thick gauze of self-delusion over still bleeding wounds. His tireless passion was an opiate so potent that I became intoxicated on the power I had to arouse. He knew, I think, that although he'd married me, he hadn't mastered me. So he had to TRY again and again. "
65 " There are only three kinds of ink that rulers use to write their stories. Sweat, blood, or tears. So choose your ink carefully, "
― Stephanie Dray , Lily of the Nile (Cleopatra's Daughter, #1)
66 " Napoleon Bonaparte once said that history is merely a set of lies agreed upon, and I know it would advantage me, "
67 " Time wastes too fast: every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity life follows my pen. The days and hours of it are flying over our heads like clouds of windy day never to return—more everything presses on— "
68 " We laughed, thinking it quite a wonderful thing to be envied. In those heady, happy days, we'd not learned yet that envy is a poison to which none are immune... "
69 " I couldn’t open that well inside me, or I’d never get it closed again. "
70 " I could hear no more. I couldn't see, couldn't think, couldn't speak. This couldn't be happening again. How could it possibly be happening again? Was I, like my eldest daughter, caught in some delusion, except in my waking dream everyone I loved was to be taken from me? "
71 " Probably so. I’m a sinner with more faults than you imagine, Patsy. But you’re the friend to which my soul is unalterably attached, so I’m prepared to make whatever alterations to my character would be conducive to your happiness. Only tell me this. Are my hopes in vain, or can you be induced to love me?” I "
72 " And, as you will find is so often the case in life, my dear Betsy, the only prudent thing to do was frown, make them humble, and forgive. "
73 " I found that I couldn't ask the questions I wanted to ask for fear of the answers. "
74 " There was an uprising in western Pennsylvania against the whiskey tax my husband had levied to pay the country’s war debt. Tax collectors had been tarred and feathered. Whiskey rebels had blown up the stills of their neighbors who paid the tax. They’d kidnapped a federal marshal. They’d even threatened to build a guillotine. Here. In America. President "
75 " I leave you to your conscience, sir . . . if you can find it. "
76 " Washington had been forced to muster an army. He would lead it, personally, against these rebels to establish, once and for all, that the laws of this new nation must be obeyed. That terror here would not be countenanced. "
77 " that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Deceptively "
78 " A wreath of smoky haze had enveloped the city for months, the remainder of a series of devastating fires that had been set in protest of the election of John Adams to the presidency. Not even the fact that Jefferson, having received the second most number of votes in the election, was now vice "
79 " All the tears I’ve been holding back for every kind of reason, as petty as my stalled ambitions and as big as my nation’s shame. "
80 " I’m in too much pain to speak, but I want to tell him that he’s wrong. It matters. Even if we lose this war, even if the Reich lasts a thousand years, then a thousand years from now, someone will need to know that we stood up against the darkest forces of humanity. And that we did it here at Chavaniac, just like those who came before us. "