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Your enemies have neither the proof nor the backbone to stand against you, but say something often enough in vulnerable ears and incredulity turns to belief.
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Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one
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Deeds may speak more compellingly than words,but I believe words have their place too. A man who has both is gifted indeed.
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It alters you irrevocably when you reach 30 years old and
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Chretien speaking to Dominic: 'Magda is no ordinary young woman. There is a blood price on her head way beyond that upon any Cathar, indeed way beyond mine. I advise you most strongly to think with your head, not your loins.' 'I am thinking,' Dominic said softly, 'with my heart.
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she knew what such grief was like and she had built her own defenses high over the years. But if you raised them too much, they became a prison and in the end you drowned with no one to hear you scream.
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There will be a great hole in the fabric of my being when he is gone, but not as great a hole as the one had I not known him.
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Elizabeth Chadwick |
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Fight for your lord, fight for his honour, but never forget that you were fighting for yourself too.
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Without the light the beauty remains hidden," Gofrid said. "But it is always there. Just like God's love, or a father's, or a mother's. Remember that, Alienor. You are loved, whether you see it or not."
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You fall over, you get up again.
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All that remained were poignant memories, and she must face reality, not live on dreams.
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Grief was just the moment before you tied off the thread and began the next one. That was when you made your choice about what you were going to sew next.
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Elizabeth Chadwick |
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She never knew from one moment to the next how he was going to behave toward her and therefore she constantly had to adjust her balance. It was exhausting.
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Elizabeth Chadwick |
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There was a time when I thought I could change everything. I have learned the hard way that we only have so much strength: better to use it for fights where we stand a chance of winning.
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Elizabeth Chadwick |
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Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.
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Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride.
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Perhaps the most important lesson I have learned is to embrace the small pleasures and turn them into lasting memories.
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Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was greatness in the female side of her line, and if she could nurture it and enhance its luster, then she would.
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That you should choose your battles wisely. You cannot fight everything and win. Sometimes the price of losing is beyond what you can afford to pay, but that applies to winning as well.
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The darkest prisons were those of the mind.
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Because to outwit your rivals, first you had to know their ways and how to play their games.
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All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to warm your body a little, but which burned you to the bone instead.
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All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to warm your body a little, but which burned you to the bone instead. Now the ashes are cold, and sometimes you remember that even when your hand was in the flames, you still had a terrible need to thrust it deeper.
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The women were active, the men passive, and that made Richenza smile as she absorbed wisdom in that moment. Her grandmother had often been told she did not know her place, but truly she did.
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That springtime does not last forever and that the fine seasons should have their harvest gathered and stored against harsher times. That you should choose your battles wisely. You cannot fight everything and win. Sometimes the price of losing is beyond what you can afford to pay, but that applies to winning as well." She narrowed her focus on the girls. "Be very careful and think before you act. Make friends with those who you know will st..
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What kind of a promise ? One that only a fool asks of a madman
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When the need is so great, no matter how much love you pour into a bowl, it will never be full. Or sometimes it is damaged, and the love all runs out through the hole in the bottom.
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Let your deeds be your bond, not your promises and cajolery.
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Done was done and could not be changed, but the future was a different matter.
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have you ride.
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Did he think to win them over like this? She remembered the boyish charm he had once possessed and wondered where it had gone. Perhaps like a bag of gold dust with an open top, the winds of time had swirled it away in a glittering spiral until there was nothing left but an empty pouch.
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Elizabeth Chadwick |
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Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.
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Elizabeth Chadwick |
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What good is having the heart of a lion if you cannot roar?
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Although she was in a fine humour and good spirits, she needed to recuperate. She was like a fine candle without enough wax to sustain the wick.
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Elizabeth Chadwick |
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The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.
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Sometimes a river runs on the surface, and sometimes it runs underground, but always it is present. Even if you do not see it, you can feel it.
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together they watched the fireflies twinkle in and out like hopes in the darkness.
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Elizabeth Chadwick |
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Look to the plank of wood in your own eye before you remove the mote of sawdust from mine
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Everyone knew that; everyone was prepared until it happened to them
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In reference to King John] "But his moods are fickle and he trusts no one. He wants others to love him and he tries to make them do it, but he's watching them all the time." She moved round to face him and caught the bleak misery in his expression that he hadn't been swift enough to conceal. "He surrounds himself with mercenaries and paid men who will do whatever he commands and agree with him whatever he says or does," Will said, dropping ..
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Those who walk with their heads in the air usually don't see the shit on the ground until they tread in it.
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We must all sleep alone in the tomb, my love, but in life we are joined as one flesh - as our children attest.
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Elizabeth Chadwick |
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When you look at them as babies in the cradle, you never know what they are going to become, but you always hope for the best.
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