“I had learned a fundamental truth about killing: The victim's anguish is brief and fleeting, but the murderer's endures forever.”
― The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici
― The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici
“I had a choice: to quail, or to harden.
I hardened.”
― The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici
I hardened.”
― The Devil's Queen: A Novel of Catherine de Medici
“There is no end,” I said. “Only the beginning of something else.”
― The Winter Prince
― The Winter Prince
“She was obviously devastated by her loss. But not so devastated that she did not find the energy to utterly vanquish Diane.”
― The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
― The Rival Queens: Catherine de' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom
“she knew what such grief was like and she had built her own defenses high over the years. But if you raised them too much, they became a prison and in the end you drowned with no one to hear you scream.”
― The Winter Crown
― The Winter Crown
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