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I'm afraid that death - execution awaits for some of the good guys. I want to put the book down now but I can't.

Maximilien Robespierre: “Over the last two years, 100,000 men have been slain as a result of treason and weakness; it is our feeble attitude towards traitors that is our undoing.”

"can we offer you an escort, Citizen Deputy, to a place of greater safety?”"

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This quote from "A Place of Greater Safety: A Novel" by Hilary Mantel -

"Cannot change be profound without being violent?"

Oh my goodness! Whoa - just when you think you are understanding these people - something crazy right out of left field! One of Robespierre's sisters... shaking my head right now and so curious!

"in the mornings she attended to the running of the household, in the afternoons she studied—mastering Italian and botany," - I need to find a place of greater accomplishment because I'm not mastering anything so impressive.

"I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon."