Life Mask Quotes

“I tell you frankly, Mrs. Damer, the more I see of different nations, the less sure I feel about the pre-eminence of my own.”
― Emma Donoghue, Life Mask: Historical Fiction of Scandal and Desire – A Literary Portrait of Revolutionary Georgian London

“The days of my vanity are over and heaven knows they weren't happy enough to regret”
― Emma Donoghue, Life Mask: Historical Fiction of Scandal and Desire – A Literary Portrait of Revolutionary Georgian London

“One couldn't pick whom to love, thought Anne, The woman beside her was friend and sister and lover and many things besides. One could only hope to recognise love where it grew, and get a grip on it and hold on.”
― Emma Donoghue, Life Mask: Historical Fiction of Scandal and Desire – A Literary Portrait of Revolutionary Georgian London