57 Quotes by Stephanie Dray

When the heart finds its one true desire, any separation and delay is unbearable.

Perhaps democracy would always naturally devolve to a state when only a man like Burr – a greedy libertine without any care for what the world might say about him – would stand for election. For what gentleman could ever.

I never was a beauty. It was only that, until a few days ago, Alexander had made me feel like one.

At first my steps are bent and painful. But the farther I walk, the less I feel the pull. Mindful of the cold muck on my feet, I straighten like the Amazon William always said I was. Like the Amazon I am.

Angelica had been right. Love was a thing beyond reason, beyond control. A thing almost predestined. And now that this powerful emotion had finally taken hold of me, I was entirely helpless against it.

I thought I was the only one who ever considered that trees might suffer melancholy, and the way their branches drooped under the weight of the ice suddenly made my own limbs heavier in sympathy. “But.

We laughed, thinking it quite a wonderful thing to be envied. In those heady, happy days, we’d not learned yet that envy is a poison to which none are immune...

Am I fated to have the men I’ve loved torment me in my weakest moments?

And in the end, I was right about Sally. Her fierce determination that her children should be free overcame all other instincts.