Best Of Ava Reid's "Lady Macbeth"

 Here is a selection of memorable quotes from Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid

"A husband and wife should have no secrets from each other," Macbeth says. "And they should keep each other's secrets from the world.”

p.39

Madness, of all things, is the most unforgivable in a woman.

p.165

She will only fight wars which are just. When she has such power, she will no longer need to inflict small cruelties in order to survive.

p. 172-173

Men are cruelest in their desperation. When they have nothing solid beneath them.

p. 175

But her greatest failure, perhaps, was believing she might be more: more than her father's ermine, with its pitiless teeth, more than Lady Macbeth, tugged along by her husband's will like a dog on its leash. The arrogance of hope.

p. 194

If she cannot have safety, if she cannot have love, at least she can have this. Vengeance.

p. 216

"You will haunt me, too," she says at last. "We can never be truly apart then, if we are each other's ghosts."

p. 216

Roscille will never stop marveling at the stupidness of men when the order of their world is disrupted.

p. 233