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“The Duchess is present, in the painting. There she stands. Lucrezia is unecessary; she can go now. Her place is filled; the portrait will take up her role in life”

“He bends at the waist and, sliding a hand around her neck, stoops and presses his lips to hers - a brief, emphatic pressure. It reminded her of her father, bringing his seal down on top of a document, marking it as his.”

DAMN, this book is good

"Words pressed themselves into her memory, like a shoe sole into soft mud, which would dry and solidify, the shoe print preserved for ever."