The Borgia Bride Quotes

“My heart is yours, Cesare. And we are both damned for it.”
― Jeanne Kalogridis, The Borgia Bride

“The sensation that seized me that morning―the twentieth of May―as I sat on my velvet cushion beside the Pope and stared down at the man standing beside my husband, was swift, irrevocable, and violent, like a dagger plunged into the heart. I trembled. I did not want it; I did not seek it; yet there it was, and I was at the mercy of it. And I knew nothing of the man who had just stolen my soul.”
― Jeanne Kalogridis, The Borgia Bride

“How could you ever have loved a man so cruel?'
Trusia lifted her chin at that, and regarded me intensely; her voice held a trace of indignance, and I understood that the depth of her love for my father transcended all else. 'You speak as though I had a choice,' she said.”
― Jeanne Kalogridis, The Borgia Bride