Sisters of Treason Quotes

“I remember Maman once saying of the old Queen that power corrupts. I have thought much on it and it seems to me that it is not power that corrupts, but the fear of its loss," she pauses with a sigh. After all Mary and Elizabeth Tudor were just girls once, not so different from my sisters, or any other girls, for the that matter. It is fear that changed them.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason

“they have been apart for several weeks and will have to find one another again among the detritus of their separate experience.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason

“In the scheme of a life, it is not the duration of something but its impact that is important.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason

“Nature’s brutality is sometimes surprising, but then man, who should know better and is guided by the Lord, is capable of worse.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason

“I try to imagine a world without her, but it is like trying to think of the sea without salt. It is said that there is a sea in the Holy Land so full of salt that you can never drown in it. Maman is that sea to me; she has held me up, kept me buoyant, and I wonder if I can float alone.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason