The Accidental Empress Quotes

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”
― Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress

“A deity does not quake simply because the crowd yells. An empress stands fixed, immutable: the calm that continues on, even as the world rages.”
― Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress

“How strange, she thought, to be a part of what would surely become history, and yet still worry that she might trip on her heavy skirt.”
― Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress

“I know this,” Sisi said, ignoring the noblewoman’s censorious stare. “It is: Franz Joseph the First, by the Grace of God, Emperor of Austria; King of Hungary and Bohemia; King of Lombardy and Venice; Grand Duke of Tuscany and Kraków; Duke of Lorraine; Grand Duke of Transylvania; Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, and Parma, and Piacenza—”
― Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress

“Don't you see, my darling?" He lifted her hand, resting it on his chest so that he could feel his heartbeat, its pace rapid like horse hooves against his breastbone. "Don't you see? Oh, but you know this well enough already. That there is nothing that requires more strength than to allow yourself to be weak for another.”
― Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress

“I am Her Majesty Duchess Ludovika of Bavaria, from the House of Wittelsbach and sister of the Archduchess of Austria, Sophie of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. My two daughters, Their Majesties the Duchesses of Bavaria, accompany me on the special invitation from His Imperial Highness, Emperor Franz Joseph, and his mother, the Archduchess Sophie.”
― Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress

“Macht meine Liebe sie nicht zur richtigen, Mutter?”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi – Kaiserin wider Willen: Roman (Außergewöhnliche Frauen zwischen Aufbruch und Liebe 8)

“Franz’s mood clearly darkened. When they”
― Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress

“templom,”
― Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress

“us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
― Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress

“with her eyes fixed shut—wincing at each smack of wheel against”
― Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress

“„Vielleicht werden Sie eines Tages mit mir kommen.“
Sisi schüttelte den Kopf. „Wie soll das möglich sein?“
„Das weiß ich noch nicht. Aber ich hatte von jeher eine Schwäche für törichte Hoffnungen und aussichtslose Fälle.”
― Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress

“Leap, and the net will appear.”
― Allison Pataki, The Accidental Empress