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The Women of Chateau Lafayette QUOTES

The Women of Chateau Lafayette QUOTES

1 " Because the world always snuffs out fire, and every generation must bring light from darkness again. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

2 " Glory is a bittersweet wreath of both flowers and thorns. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

3 " 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

4 " 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. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

5 " 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. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

6 " Now I knew the torments of cruelty were with us in every age. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

7 " Yves holds me close. 'I'll take you anywhere you want to go.'

And those are the words I've been waiting to hear all my life . . . "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

8 " What happens to us as individuals doesn’t matter much in the larger scheme of things. We must win this war. Our cause is just, and righteousness must prevail. If we must perish to see that it does, it will be to our everlasting glory, even if no one remembers our names. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

9 " Grief is like thick morning fog. You breathe it, swim in it, drown in it—or at least you want to drown, but for some damned reason, you keep living, breathing, walking. One foot in front of the other even though you can’t see the path ahead. You tiptoe, and so does everybody else . . "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

10 " It was a farmers’ insurrection that would change our lives, and yet at the time, "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

11 " Fear, it seems, is a contagion as virulent as measles. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

12 " You won’t make anything better by weaving your own misery into the collective shroud. If you find some tendril of happiness, then tug on it. Because a world without happiness isn’t worth fighting for. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

13 " Our friends warned, In running a middle course, you run the risk of being hated by both sides . . "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

14 " my Lord Jesus Christ had transformed the hearts of humanity with his sacrifice. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

15 " I am enough a heretic that even heaven will not console me for leaving Gilbert. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

16 " You young pups prattle on about equality, but heed a woman of experience. In the end, given the opportunity, every man will step upon every other man in a mad scramble to the top. Climb too high too quickly, and the same people who hoisted you up will tear you down. Jealousy, my dear, is the most wicked, and most certain, of human impulses. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

17 " He snorted. “If history teaches us anything, madame, it is that there is always another war. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

18 " Jealousy, my dear, is the most wicked, and most certain, of human impulses. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

19 " I’ve always believed that you shouldn’t put your neck out for others unless you want it chopped. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette

20 " Oh, I remember, my dear. Your unwavering faith renewed my own, reminding me that rebellion against tyranny is obedience to God. "

― Stephanie Dray , The Women of Chateau Lafayette