The Romanov Empress Quotes

“After the night ended, she spun to me and yanked off her diadem. “There. I had my debut. I still hate parties.”
― C.W. Gortner, The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

“A wolf is still a wolf”
― C.W. Gortner, The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

“Sometimes”
― C.W. Gortner, The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

“Our children grow up”
― C.W. Gortner, The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

“I’d had to stifle my laughter when one afternoon Master Heath was seen fleeing the classroom”
― C.W. Gortner, The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

“Rulers can be removed….In the end”
― C.W. Gortner, The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

“It’s never easy at first”
― C.W. Gortner, The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

“The peasantry is easily misled. They must always obey the tsar”
― C.W. Gortner, The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

“Nelipa, Margarita. Alexander III: His Life and Reign.”
― C.W. Gortner, The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

“One must be very sure of the bank before one opens an account.”
― C.W. Gortner, The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

“family, a princess of no power. I was indeed a Romanov now, with all the challenges, privileges, and obligations my rank entailed.”
― C.W. Gortner, The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

“between us, she reclined with hers between her fingers. “I do love a cigarette with tea. It’s the style in Paris and Berlin. All the princesses smoke these days.”
― C.W. Gortner, The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna