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Marie QUOTES

21 " She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient. "

― Mavis Gallant , The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant

22 " No, that I love you. I love you, Isabel Marie Nichols, and I have since the first day I watched your golden blonde hair dance in the sunlight. That day, you became mine. "

― A.M. Willard , Fading Memories

23 " Detective Inspector Carver took a picture from the breast pocket of his suit. He handed it to me. ‘This is what you did, Michael. Take a good look. See if it jogs your memory.’
I gawped at the mutilated corpse of a naked young girl lying on a blood-soaked double bed. Her hands were bound to the brass headboard with duct tape. Blood covered her upper body, and her long blonde hair was streaked a murderous shade of red. One eye stared at the ceiling as if searching for salvation, the other, a bloody unrecognisable pulp, bore no relation to its sightless counterpart.
‘Carla Marie Coombs. Twenty-one years of age. Do you recognise her, Michael? "

― Mark Tilbury , The Abattoir of Dreams

24 " Perhaps the Queen's prayers, and those of Bernard, had been efficacious, or perhaps Louise had been more attentive in bed, for during 1145--the exact date is not recorded--she bore a daughter, who was named Marie in honour of the Virgin. If the infant was not the male heir to France so desired by the King--the Salic law forbade the succession of females to the throne--her arrival encouraged the royal parents to hope for a son in the future.

Relationships between aristocratic parents and children were rarely close. Queens and noblewomen did not nurse their own babies, but handed them over at birth into the care of wet nurses, leaving themselves free to become pregnant again. "

― Alison Weir , Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)

25 " Before her, with sharp blue eyes and perfectly coiffed blond hair, was Josephine Marie Elizabeth Cavendish, Her Grace, the Duchess of Durham, widow of the fifth duke, and aunt to the Cavendish siblings.

One did not call her Josie. Amelia had asked. "

― Maya Rodale , Lady Bridget's Diary (Keeping Up with the Cavendishes, #1)

26 " Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
a medley of extemporanea,
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
and I am Marie of Romania. "

― Dorothy Parker , Enough Rope

27 " If he needed an answer about how much he'd changed, that provided it. He didn't want Fatima Hynes or any other nameless female with vacant eyes and an ample bosom. He didn't want anyone else, ever. He wanted Evelyn Marie Ruddick—and he'd be damned if he was going to let Neckcloth Alvington have her without a fight. And if there was one thing he knew how to do better than anyone else in London, it was how to fight dirty "

― , London's Perfect Scoundrel (Lessons in Love, #2)

28 " When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent -

Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed,
The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore

- he unveils nothing less than a canvas by Rubens, baroque master of baroque masters; this is the landing of a TRAGIC Marie de Medicis.
Yet so receptive was the English ear to sheep-Wordsworth's perverse 'Enough of Art' that it is not any of these works of supreme art, these master-sonnets of English literature, that are sold as picture postcards, with the text in lieu of the view, in the Lake District! it is those eternally, infernally sprightly Daffodils. "

― Brigid Brophy , Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without

29 " I never really thought about how when I look at the moon, it's the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. "

― Susan Beth Pfeffer , Life As We Knew It (Last Survivors, #1)

30 " You've honey on your tongue, ma fifille," Maman once said. " If you'd lived in earlier times, you could have been a troubadour." " ...There aren't any troubadours any more, are there, Maman?" Marie said. " And if there were, girls wouldn't be allowed to be one." " Probably not," Maman agreed sadly." I'll be one anyway," I said with determination.Maman smiled and gently pulled on my hair. " I'm sure you will, ma fifille, a clever girl like you. You can do whatever you like in this world if you just have courage enough. "

31 " At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special. "

32 " My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini. "

33 " Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. "

34 " The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease. "

35 " Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore. "