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Sarah Dunant

Sarah Dunant Books

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Sarah Dunant is a British author renowned for her historical novels. She explores history through a female perspective, particularly focusing on the Renaissance period. Born on August 8, 1950, Dunant's works include 'The Birth of Venus' and 'In the Name of the Rose'.

In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel

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Blood & Beauty

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Mapping the Edge: A Novel

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The Birth of Venus

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The Birth of Venus: A Novel

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“Make enemies if you have to- and you will- but always make sure the most powerful stay your friends.”

Friends Enemies

Book:Blood & Beauty

Source: Blood & Beauty

“I am like Icarus without wings. But the desire to fly was very strong in me. I think I was always looking for a Daedalus.”

Flying Icarus Daedalus

Book:The Birth of Venus

Source: The Birth of Venus

“Children brought up in the company of adults learn better than most the power of solitude.”

Book:The Birth of Venus

Source: The Birth of Venus

“it is not what you do or don't do, but how convincingly you can be accused of it.”

Book:Blood & Beauty

Source: Blood & Beauty

“Missing rubs the soul raw.”

Book:Mapping the Edge: A Novel

Source: Mapping the Edge: A Novel

“But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.”

Knows Feels Has Beens Body Young Love Is Grief Your Body

Book:In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel

Source: In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel

“So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.”

Ifs Husband My Husband Alchemy Love My Husband

Book:The Birth of Venus (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

Source: The Birth of Venus (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel

“Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.”

Thinking Knows Want Mean Might Used Felt Disease Definitions Obsession Obsessed Call Me

Book:Mapping the Edge: A Novel

Source: Mapping the Edge: A Novel

“The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.”

May Dies Devil Boredom Frustration Good Will Reckless

Book:The Birth of Venus: A Novel

Source: The Birth of Venus: A Novel

“If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.”

Ifs Looks Grace Devil Luck

Book:In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel

Source: In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel

“Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.”

People Ifs Knows Firsts Helping Eye Differences First Time Making A Difference God Help God Help Us

Book:The Birth of Venus: A Novel

Source: The Birth of Venus: A Novel

“Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.”

Men Mind Ideas Hands Faster

Author:Sarah Dunant

“I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all.”

People Sometimes Hard Enough Speak Language Given Memories Talking Wonder Findings Rivers Grammar Nuance People Talking No Memory

Book:In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel

Source: In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel

“Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.”

Has Beens Together Stuff Powerful Imagine Personality Noses Profile Gargoyles

Author:Sarah Dunant

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Born: August 8, 1950
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