Coraline by Neil Gailman

★★★★

"The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart.  We keep our memories longer than our names."

Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay

★★★★★

"How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered."

"Zakhar, Al Tichkan."

"Remember, Never Forget."

Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette by Sena Jeter Naslund

★★★★

" 'Mortality is a cause for humility,' she said to me.  'None of us knows when he might be taken, as your blessed father was taken.  Death, like birth, comes to us all, regardless of rank or station in like.' "

Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles by Kathryn Lasky

★★★

Mary, Queen of France by Jean Plaidy

★★

The Queen's Fool by Philippa Gregory

★★★★★

"I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine.  I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at a man for his help."

The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory

★★★★★

"If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace."