Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters Quotes

“Who but a sister could a woman count on to truly understand her, even when they did not understand each other at all?”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

“Sometime after seven o'clock, a distant church bell began to toll, and then another joined it, and another, until all the bells in a Springfield resounded with the terrible news.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

“I fear that until this rebellion is put down, she'll find herself caught in the middle, claimed by neither side, mistrusted by both.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

“Mary had disrupted nearly every relationship in her life. Would she now come between her sisters, setting one against another, their long time amity forgotten?”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

“The Todd sisters all had survived tragedy. They all had endured loss—parents, husbands, children, whole nations and noble causes, all had fallen away, lost to time. If they could not rise above their old resentments to help a sister in need, would it not be said that they had learned nothing from their own suffering?”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

“Illinois Seventh District to the United States Congress. The Lincolns”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

“Stephen Douglas, a wealthy, well-educated rising star in the Democratic Party whom she liked very much, only because she did not think the American people would elect him to the highest office in the land.”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters

“She was bright, intellectually curious, and sociable,”
― Jennifer Chiaverini, Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters