“And I reminded myself that a woman should be able to dress as she liked without a man hurting her...”
―
Stephanie Dray,
Song of the Nile
“I’ll tell you a secret about being happy, Tom. Sometimes you just have to pretend at it until it becomes real.” ― Stephanie Dray, America's First Daughter
“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today; there have been setbacks before and may be more in the future.” ― Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile
“Kings and queens cry with family. Hide your grief from subjects and strangers.” ― Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile
“But the measure of a man, of a life, of a union of man and wife or even country is not in the falling. It’s in the rising back up again to repair what’s broken, to put right what’s wrong. Your father and I did that. We always did that. He never stopped trying until the day he died. And neither will I.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton: Wife, Widow, and Warrior in Alexander Hamilton’s Quest for a More Perfect Union
“They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed.” ― Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile
“The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.” ― Stephanie Dray, Daughters of the Nile
“Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved?” ― Stephanie Dray, America's First Daughter
“Silence is often the only weapon available to ladies. And I wield mine expertly.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
“But I think it better, in times like these, for us to acknowledge that marriage is a choice, one made, every day, anew.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
“When the heart finds its one true desire, any separation and delay is unbearable.” ― Stephanie Dray, America's First Daughter
“The opposite of love, I thought, was not hatred, but indifference, and for my own survival, I’d made my heart indifferent to Alexander Hamilton.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
“They'd murdered my husband. They'd taken him from me. But I still had his words, and they were my solace. Hamilton could still speak to me through those pages. His love letters. His Ideas. His essays. Thousands of pages.They could kill him, but they couldn't silence him. Not if his story was told. Not if his work was preserved. And I resolved to collect the pieces of the legacy Alexander left behind.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
“Because the people we love are not entirely knowable. Even to themselves. But we love them anyway.The only other choice is to live without love, alone.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
“I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen.” ― Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile
“I now saw union between man and woman was the same as union among the states—as a series of debates and compromises that might hold it all together for a few more years, or end in a painful separation.” ― Stephanie Dray, America's First Daughter
“From tattered flags and uniforms to friendships strained to the brink, the women of my country had always been the menders to all the things torn asunder.” ― Stephanie Dray, America's First Daughter
“There are only three kinds of ink that rulers use to write their stories. Sweat, blood, or tears. So choose your ink carefully, because one day Anubis will weigh your heart upon on a scale. If your heart is black and heavy with sin, it will go to the crocodiles in the hour of judgment. But if you’re faithful, Isis offers immortality.” ― Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile
“I never was a beauty. It was only that, until a few days ago, Alexander had made me feel like one.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
“I’ll tell you a secret about being happy, Tom. Sometimes you just have to pretend at it until it becomes real.” ― Stephanie Dray, America's First Daughter
“Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today; there have been setbacks before and may be more in the future.” ― Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile
“Kings and queens cry with family. Hide your grief from subjects and strangers.” ― Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile
“But the measure of a man, of a life, of a union of man and wife or even country is not in the falling. It’s in the rising back up again to repair what’s broken, to put right what’s wrong. Your father and I did that. We always did that. He never stopped trying until the day he died. And neither will I.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton: Wife, Widow, and Warrior in Alexander Hamilton’s Quest for a More Perfect Union
“They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed.” ― Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile
“The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.” ― Stephanie Dray, Daughters of the Nile
“Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved?” ― Stephanie Dray, America's First Daughter
“Silence is often the only weapon available to ladies. And I wield mine expertly.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
“But I think it better, in times like these, for us to acknowledge that marriage is a choice, one made, every day, anew.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
“When the heart finds its one true desire, any separation and delay is unbearable.” ― Stephanie Dray, America's First Daughter
“The opposite of love, I thought, was not hatred, but indifference, and for my own survival, I’d made my heart indifferent to Alexander Hamilton.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
“They'd murdered my husband. They'd taken him from me. But I still had his words, and they were my solace. Hamilton could still speak to me through those pages. His love letters. His Ideas. His essays. Thousands of pages.They could kill him, but they couldn't silence him. Not if his story was told. Not if his work was preserved. And I resolved to collect the pieces of the legacy Alexander left behind.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton
“Because the people we love are not entirely knowable. Even to themselves. But we love them anyway.The only other choice is to live without love, alone.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
“I had come to Rome in chains, but I would leave Rome a queen.” ― Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile
“I now saw union between man and woman was the same as union among the states—as a series of debates and compromises that might hold it all together for a few more years, or end in a painful separation.” ― Stephanie Dray, America's First Daughter
“From tattered flags and uniforms to friendships strained to the brink, the women of my country had always been the menders to all the things torn asunder.” ― Stephanie Dray, America's First Daughter
“There are only three kinds of ink that rulers use to write their stories. Sweat, blood, or tears. So choose your ink carefully, because one day Anubis will weigh your heart upon on a scale. If your heart is black and heavy with sin, it will go to the crocodiles in the hour of judgment. But if you’re faithful, Isis offers immortality.” ― Stephanie Dray, Lily of the Nile
“I never was a beauty. It was only that, until a few days ago, Alexander had made me feel like one.” ― Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton
