Sandra Gulland Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. Each moment of life is a step toward death.

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. I nodded yes. Another deceit. I have become a person I do not care for.

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

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#8. I confess that I enjoy this vocation, in spite of my sex. I feel a certain thrill, as if I were visiting a lover. But it is money I court, money that woos me, and the intoxicating power to earn a very great deal.

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

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#10. We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.

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#11. I want to go with you," I told him.
"To Egypt?" I whispered.
"Wherever you go.

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#12. My other treasure was my virginity, and I'd thought of selling it too, years back, to the steward's hunchback son. I had refrained, holding out -I told myself- for a higher bidder. Now I fancied myself ruler of an impregnable realm.

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. For the king, love like an alter fire, eternal

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#16. Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.

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