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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1) QUOTES

The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1) QUOTES

1 " A feeling of disquiet continues to haunt me. As a youth one dreams of love; by the time one wakes, it is too late. "

― Sandra Gulland , The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)

2 " He calls me Josephine. He says I'm an angel, a saint, his good lucky star. I know I'm no angel, but in truth I have begun to like this Josephine he sees. She is intelligent; she amuses; she is pleasing. She is grace and charm and heart. Unlike Rose; scared, haunted and needy. Unlike Rose with her sad life. "

― Sandra Gulland , The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)

3 " I play out the cards. They say: This is Heaven, this is Hell. It is one. "

― Sandra Gulland , The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)

4 " The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head. "

― Sandra Gulland , The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)

5 " You are thinking of the past." I put my arms around her. She'd risen from childbed too soon. "We are the past," she said. "

― Sandra Gulland , The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)

6 " Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear. "

― Sandra Gulland , The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)

7 " I kissed his cheek. "My King." I swooped into the courtly curtsy he'd taught me as a girl, regally kicking an imaginary train aside as I turned to go. He was laughing silently as I left. For a moment I saw that spark again. I did not say goodbye. "

― Sandra Gulland , The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)

8 " Now I have discovered where it is that she goes. It's the guillotine that draws her, across the river in the Place Louis Quinze- Place de la Revolution now-where daily crowds gather, the vendors selling lemonade, the children playing prisoner's base, the old ladies gossiping as the heads fall. "

― Sandra Gulland , The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)

9 " I lowered myself into an armchair. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust. All that remained of my life was in my lap. I sat for a time thus, as still as the mute objects that surrounded me. How little it all meant, in the end. "

― Sandra Gulland , The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)

10 " One leads, willing or not," Deputy Tallien answered. "It takes courage to face one's own death but even more so the death of others. We are learning this lesson well. "

― Sandra Gulland , The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)