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1 " There’s a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings. "
― Michelle Cooper , A Brief History of Montmaray
2 " The way she told it, the English counties are littered with aging spinsters who accidentally displayed a spark of intelligence at a debutante dance and were banished forever from civilized society "
3 " When I asked her what she'd thought of Pride and Prejudice, she only wondered aloud how anyone could have written a novel set in the first part of the nineteenth century without once mentioning Napoleon. "
4 " If all women were as frail as men seem to believe, the human race would have died out millennia ago. "
5 " For we carry what we love inside us, always. "
6 " Perhaps this is one of the reasons Toby dislikes politics-that some of the people who car most about politics seem to have the least compassion for ordinary human beings. "
7 " For are any of us non-believers at moments of despair? "