“You’re night, Duchess, she was day.”
“You’re my only Duchess.”
“Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.”
“I was on the way to becoming a duchess, and I had made the Kingmaker angry. What more could a child of seven have accomplished in one day?”
“Shut it, Duchess”
“Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.”