“I am afraid, my dear niece, that a mere woman is something you most certainly are not.”

“Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war.”

“War is a terrible, bloody thing.”

“Peggy is a sovereign nation. She governs herself and those around her by her own laws.”

“It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand.”

“Julia Woodhull was many things: a lady of secrets, a patriots niece, and a dead mans daughter. But one thing Julia Woodhull was most certainly not was a fool.”

“Dolls are precious little reflections of joyous light, whose hope is only to delight " - Gayle Wray”

“It's like a nesting doll of imagination! It's like a painting of a painting! It's like the wind catching a chill from the wind, or a wave taking a dip in the ocean. It's like reading a novel that m...”

“He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or ...”

“As the tension between the Protestants and the Church of Rome intensified, so did the desire for a third way among dissenting groups. Soon a new group emerged, though in some senses it was also an ...”

“Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.”

“How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to lose I wondered what I would have thought of Andrius in Lithuania. Would I have liked him Would he h...”

“...mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly.""How do you see something that isn't there?"..."sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are"...”