The Tangled Thread Quotes

“Leaving her husband to poke the fire, Héloïse went through into the bedroom to change out of her ‘decent’ clothes, which she brushed carefully and hung up inside a Holland bag from a nail in the wall.”
― Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Tangled Thread

“Danon’s friend Camille supported him, writing in his column in the newspaper Vieux Cordelier: ‘Love of country cannot exist where there is neither pity nor love for one’s fellow countrymen. Release the two hundred thousand suspects who are imprisoned! In the Declaration of Man’s Rights there is no house of suspicion, only houses of arrest.”
― Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Tangled Thread

“Héloïse noticed that his hair, of which a strand had escaped from under his wig, was fox-red, and that he had a boil on the back of his neck. It made him seem more human and less awe-inspiring, which was a comfort.”
― Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Tangled Thread