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

- Sarah Dunant

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

- Sarah Dunant

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

- Sarah Dunant

Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych…

- Sarah Dunant

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

- Sarah Dunant

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 …

- Sarah Dunant

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.

- Sarah Dunant

Missing rubs the soul raw.

- 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 le…

- Sarah Dunant