Ribbons of Scarlet Quotes

“skipped Mass,” Maman said,”
― Allison Pataki, Ribbons of Scarlet

“was away. “I’m sorry, Maman. It’s just that I keep thinking, if only I can capture his pain in a portrait”
― Allison Pataki, Ribbons of Scarlet

“don’t believe you have brought down the king’s disapproval upon”
― Allison Pataki, Ribbons of Scarlet

“condemned”
― Allison Pataki, Ribbons of Scarlet

“PERHAPS I SHOULD’VE”
― Allison Pataki, Ribbons of Scarlet

“Listen to an enemy rant and you can learn much about him.”
― Kate Quinn, Ribbons of Scarlet

“consoled me, and he stroked my back to soothe the”
― Allison Pataki, Ribbons of Scarlet

“excitement.”
― Allison Pataki, Ribbons of Scarlet

“find a rallying cry”
― Kate Quinn, Ribbons of Scarlet

“January 1787 On the day we arrived at Condorcet’s residence, I admired a portrait in the hall, my fingers itching to reproduce it in a sketch. “Who is this darling little girl? A relation of yours?” Unexpectedly, the question made my new husband cringe. “In a way.” His reaction made my stomach knot. Was this a bastard daughter? Given our arrangement, it wasn’t my right to know, but my voice was sharp. “In what way?” He glanced at me warily. “My mother was a good woman. A loving mother . . . but she kept me in dresses almost until the age of eight. Years after other boys were breeched and began to attend school. That portrait is not a girl. It’s me. You can, perhaps, easily imagine the cruel laughter and mockery of other boys that I endured.” Sensing a lingering pain, I took the liberty of reaching for his hand. “We should be rid of this portrait if it humiliates you.” “No, it educates me,” he said, squeezing my fingers. “That’s a good thing. The experience taught me the”
― Kate Quinn, Ribbons of Scarlet

“So, reader, you now have the chance to enter Paris during these years for a front-row seat to all the action and drama.”
― Kate Quinn, Ribbons of Scarlet

“Bookish women are not the happiest females, for the world does not like to see a woman’s head bent over anything but a cradle, a cooking pot, or a rosary.”
― Kate Quinn, Ribbons of Scarlet

“they were divided into the men of extremism and violence, and the men of moderation and reason.”
― Kate Quinn, Ribbons of Scarlet

“That division between emotion and logic, more than any other, was the one beginning to divide this new government. In the beginning it was the royalists and the revolutionaries, but now there were factions among the revolutionaries,”
― Kate Quinn, Ribbons of Scarlet

“believed other young ladies would be scholars if only such qualities were prized and encouraged in us. Nevertheless,”
― Kate Quinn, Ribbons of Scarlet

“without rights, and the hope of a better future?”
― Kate Quinn, Ribbons of Scarlet

“what good was a life that brought so much suffering? What good was a life”
― Kate Quinn, Ribbons of Scarlet

“How would I be remembered by them, or would I be remembered at al? For memories were soon all that was to be left of me. And the sole, final hope I had was that somehow the memory of would matter - to my friends, to my lovers, to my country.”
― Laura Kamoie, Ribbons of Scarlet

“True respect if formed when you find something upon which you disagree and yet remain on good terms.”
― Stephanie Dray, Ribbons of Scarlet