The Second Empress Quotes

“The Empress Marie-Louise once asked me if I believed in ghosts.
'I find it hard to believe in something I've never seen,' I told her.
But perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.”
― Michelle Moran, The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court

“perhaps ghosts aren’t meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.”
― Michelle Moran, The Second Empress : A Novel of Napoleon's Court

“How only sixteen years ago they beheaded my great-aunt, Queen Marie-Antoinette.”
― Michelle Moran, The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court

“Yes. I know all about how the French burned my people alive in cauldrons of molasses. How they mutilated and tortured Haitian prisoners, digging pits on the beach and waiting for the tide to roll in so they would drown. In Port-au-Prince,” I tell them, “the emperor’s soldiers invited all mulâtres to a ball. Then at the stroke of midnight, he announced that the men would be put to death. They killed them right there, in front of their wives.”
― Michelle Moran, The Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon's Court