Death Quote by Michael Baigent

“When the king’s head fell beneath the guillotine, an unknown man is reported to have leaped onto the scaffold. He dipped his hand in…

— Michael Baigent

“July 3rd, 1566 Salon-de-Provence, France St. Michel Chapel 0300 hours   Brother Jean-Baptiste Chevalier would be dead in less than an hour. Had he…

— Vincent Pauletti

“A second later, Jacques was at Burn's side, shaking the mercenary's hand as if he were the King himself. “Nice, Wolfy, well met!” he…

— T.L. Shreffler

“No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of Monsieur Defarge: but, a smouldering fire that burnt in the dark lay hidden…

— Charles Dickens

“Glowing in my heart, like the flames of quaint fireplaces. Craving, burning inside as molten rocks of volcanoes, burning slowly in unmoved increments, brutally…

— Amany Al-Hallaq

“It is not often," said the second of the three, addressing Monsieur Defarge, "that many of these miserable beasts know the taste of wine,…

— Charles Dickens

“A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more…

— George R.R. Martin

“And the wave of tenderness and pity that at once filled his heart was not the stirring of the soul that leads the son…

— Albert Camus

“How goes it, Jacques?" said one of these three to Monsieur Defarge. "Is all the spilt wine swallowed?" "Every drop, Jacques,”

— Charles Dickens

“The day they brought him forth to die they feared he might incite the crowd (the man was famous for his eloquence). And so…

— Heather McHugh

“any moment now that sun would burst into a ball of flame, a furnace to stifle the heart of Petites Cendres, his soul felt…

— Marie-Claire Blais

“Odysseus had twenty years to shed his battle skin. My grandfather left the battlefield in France and rode home in a ship that crawled…

— Laurie Halse Anderson