The Narrator

"The shadow of the guillotine fell across the city like a dark prophecy."

"Every human creature is a mystery, even to those who believe they know them best."

"She had the power to touch his heart, and he knew it, though he had never told her so."

"The blade descended with terrible swiftness, and in that instant, all was silent."

"The wood-sawyer laughed a loud laugh, and the knitting woman did not laugh, but smiled with the malice of her design."

"There is no such thing as absolute truth in human affairs; there is only the truth as men perceive it."

"The rope around her neck was real enough, and the platform beneath her feet was real enough, and the crowd below was real enough."

"The night is dark and I am far from home."

"The wine spilled upon the streets runs red like blood."

"I see that child grown into an orphan."

"The golden thread binding us together may be cut by fate."

"The woodman, the farmer, and the doctor all serve a purpose."

"The court of England has ways of measuring a man."

"We are not masters of the currents that move us."

"The dread tribunal sits in judgment of us all."

"The crowd moves with the force of a river in flood."

"The knitting needles click out the names of the condemned."

"A man may escape his chains but not his conscience."

"The resurrection of a man takes many forms."

"These matters of the heart are beyond the reach of reason."

"The threads of our lives are woven by hands we cannot see."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"

"recalled to life"

"The grapes of Wrath are theirs"

"The woodman and the farmer know better than to expect the spring"

"We are all under sentence of death"

"The fetters fall away and light breaks in"

"I am the resurrection and the life"

"The most miserable of all human conditions"

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"