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Courting Mr. Lincoln QUOTES

Courting Mr. Lincoln QUOTES

1 " Joshua said nothing, for his mind was even now limning the vacancy. Lincoln would no more be seated on the far side of the dining table. He would no more ride his horse into town or let his huge hands rove through the library of stroll past the hemp house or listen to Eliza gabble or applaud Mary's nocturnes or argue some abstruse point of law with James or scratch behind Growler's ears as the dog lay stretched around his feet. From henceforth, there would be only space where Lincoln used to be.
And in Joshua's mind, that space began to expand and deepen until it became a vast nullity, blanketing everything around him until it seemed the night itself had been swallowed up by it. "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

2 " was nine when she passed. The last thing she told us was Be good to one another. "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

3 " I’m the one who feeds the lions their raw meat. "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

4 " For what purpose?” “So they don’t devour the other speakers. "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

5 " friend of mine says you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting one. "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

6 " hope you will allow me to speak as plainly as I can.” This was the difference, he thought, between the South and the North. A Southern woman would never ask permission. "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

7 " believe, it is the height of love to—to release a loved one. "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

8 " Many a woman has been won without ever being wooed. "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

9 " Men don’t always know what they need. That’s why God made women. "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

10 " I’m sure many have spoken of her.” Lincoln reached for his pen, dipped it in the inkwell. “She is Elizabeth Edwards’ sister.” “For which she has my sympathies. "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

11 " will say this. He gets less ugly with time. "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

12 " dogtooth violets. "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

13 " A lady is in the newspaper but three times in her life. When she is born—” “When she marries and when she dies, "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln

14 " I hide myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too—
And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness. —Emily Dickinson "

― Louis Bayard , Courting Mr. Lincoln