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My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton QUOTES

1 " The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

2 " The promise of liberty is not written in blood or engraved in stone, it's embroidered into the fabric of our nation. "

― Laura Kamoie , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

3 " I was someone before I met Alexander Hamilton" ~ Betsy Schuyler "

― Laura Kamoie , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

4 " But the measure of a man, of a life, of a union of man and wife or even country is not in the falling. It’s in the rising back up again to repair what’s broken, to put right what’s wrong. Your father and I did that. We always did that. He never stopped trying until the day he died. And neither will I. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

5 " But I think it better, in times like these, for us to acknowledge that marriage is a choice, one made, every day, anew. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

6 " The opposite of love, I thought, was not hatred, but indifference, and for my own survival, I’d made my heart indifferent to Alexander Hamilton. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

7 " I never was a beauty. It was only that, until a few days ago, Alexander had made me feel like one. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

8 " Because the people we love are not entirely knowable. Even to themselves. But we love them anyway.

The only other choice is to live without love, alone. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

9 " Silence is often the only weapon available to ladies. And I wield mine expertly. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

10 " They'd murdered my husband. They'd taken him from me. But I still had his words, and they were my solace. Hamilton could still speak to me through those pages. His love letters. His Ideas. His essays. Thousands of pages.
They could kill him, but they couldn't silence him. Not if his story was told. Not if his work was preserved. And I resolved to collect the pieces of the legacy Alexander left behind. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

11 " No one wanted to serve anymore. Not when, under our new government, any man, whether a gentleman or a scoundrel, could say whatever he pleased and print whatever libels he wished without consequence. And the ignorant populists, spewing tobacco juice as they ranted, took full advantage. As if the notion that all men were created equal somehow meant that one need not aspire to knowledge and ability—all distinctions of class, breeding, or merit discarded, all notions of civility deserted. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

12 " A marriage is like a union of states, requiring countless dinner table bargains to hold it together. There may be irreconcilable differences brewing below the surface that can come to open rupture. And there is, in a marriage, as in a nation, a certain amount of storytelling we do to make it understood. Even if those stories we tell to make our marriage, or country, work don't paint the whole picture, they're still true. But to leave Alexander Hamilton out of the painting entirely is a lie. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

13 " Angelica had been right. Love was a thing beyond reason, beyond control. A thing almost predestined. And now that this powerful emotion had finally taken hold of me, I was entirely helpless against it. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

14 " I was someone before I met Alexander Hamilton.
Not someone famous or important or with a learned philosophical understanding of all that was at stake in our revolution. Not a warrior or a philosopher or statesman.
But I was a patriot.
I was no unformed skein of wool for Hamilton to weave together into any tapestry he wished. That's important for me to remember now, when every thread of my life has become tangled with everything he was. Important, I think, in sorting out what can be forgiven, to remember my own experiences - the ones filled with my own yearnings that had nothing to do with him.
I was, long before he came into my life, a young woman struggling to understand her place in a changing world. And torn, even then, between loyalty, duty, and honor in the face of betrayal. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

15 " But any parent who has lost a child will tell you that grief is a monster less vanquished than held at bay. That, like love, survival is a choice to be made anew every morning, and sometimes one must pretend at being healed just to get through the day. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

16 " Though the natural weakness of her body hinders her from doing what men can perform, she has a mind as valiant and as active for the good of her country as the best of us. - Plutarch "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

17 " What a high-minded thing revolution had seemed when it started; but now I wondered if, in trying to bring about liberty, we’d instead opened the gates of endless war, bloodshed, and immorality. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

18 " But, thankfully, fiction can go where historians rightly fear to tread. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

19 " For I find inside myself love where I'd not expected it to be. Both for a flawed nation and a flawed man. *Love*. A thing so powerful it can overcome the divide of time and death. It's still there inside me, like an eternal flame, though the light it casts is different now. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton

20 " Because words were his weapon; silence was mine. And he couldn’t win an argument if I didn’t start one. "

― Stephanie Dray , My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton