The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr Quotes

“I’ve always believed that smell and taste are the senses that memory loves best. Sight and hearing are like pretty baubles, easy to admire, but smell and taste are the ones that can call back the past in an instant.”
― Susan Holloway Scott, The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr

“Louisa’s youngest child”
― Susan Holloway Scott, The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr

“Oh”
― Susan Holloway Scott, The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr

“The Federalists were so determined against anything with the taint of the French that they tried to deny a French-speaking congressman from Pennsylvania”
― Susan Holloway Scott, The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr

“Among us servants”
― Susan Holloway Scott, The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr

“He was a white gentleman”
― Susan Holloway Scott, The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr

“expect her to abandon the Hermitage,”
― Susan Holloway Scott, The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr

“Only much later did I understand it for what it was: not unhappiness”
― Susan Holloway Scott, The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr

“her meanness had been able to creep right into me through the weakness of my own disappointment.”
― Susan Holloway Scott, The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr