Alias Grace Important Quotes

I, the most important passenger, the youth who had once been the glorious god Apollo, was forced to sit in the back of the dragon. Oh, the indignities I had suffered since Zeus stripped me of my divine powers! It wasn’t enough that I was now a sixteen-year-old mortal with the ghastly alias Lester Papadopoulos. It wasn’t enough that I had to toil upon the earth doing (ugh) heroic quests until I could find a way back into my father’s good graces, or that I had a case of acne which simply would not respond to over-the-counter zit medicine. Despite my New York State junior driver’s license, Leo Valdez didn’t trust me to operate his aerial bronze steed!

It is more important to be a murderess than the one murdered

It was important to convince such patients that you, at least, did not believe them to be mad, since they never believed it themselves.

- Alors, vous avez abandonné tout espoir ? - Espoir de quoi, monsieur ? a-t-elle demandé avec douceur. Simon s'est senti bête, comme s'il avait manqué aux convenances. - Eh bien..., d'être remise en liberté. - Pourquoi voudraient-ils faire cela, monsieur ? Une criminelle n'est pas n'importe quoi. Quant à mes espoirs, je les garde pour de plus modestes sujets. Je vis dans l'espoir d'avoir demain un meilleur petit déjeuner que celui que j'ai eu aujourd'hui.