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“This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's…

— Lauren DeStefano

“What arguments, what persuasions can I make use of, with any prospect of success, to such a woman as Madame Duval? ...She is too…

— Frances Burney

“Blameless as I was, and knew that I was, in reference to any wrong she could possibly suspect me of, I shrunk before her…

— Charles Dickens

“She was a failure. That's what she thought. She had come to the forest to see the world, but all she found was wretchedness.”

— Robert Beatty

“She had to make her own marvelous mistakes.”

— Paul Scott

“The best heroines, she'd always believed, took their fate into their own hands.”

— Anna Godbersen

“... She might have thought that it was the case, that all things worked out in the end, and that the world was a…

— Emma Straub

“presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she…

— Charles Bukowski

“There are two women inside Miss Duvall," he said stonily. "There's the one you find in that book, experienced, jaded, greedy... a perverse bitch.…

— Lisa Kleypas

“She righted herself, her balance returning. Had she really thought the world didn't change? She was a fool. The world was made of miracles,…

— Leigh Bardugo

“...Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue.”

— The Marquis de Sade

“Never mistake complacence for the illusion of control. She is like wildfire, at once utterly beguiling and wholly untameable.”

— Lisa Mantchev