Before Versailles Quotes

“What a web deceit made, its strands strangling the innocent and the guilty alike.”
― Karleen Koen, Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV

“She is like a dark plum, he thought. She might be sweet when you bit into her, but it was just as likely she'd be bitter. He liked not knowing which side he'd taste.”
― Karleen Koen, Before Versailles: A Novel of Louis XIV