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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d9631f3 | I wasn't the kid who got involved in the streets. I liked to be at home with my family. | Bad Bunny | ||
| e084d4f | It's not called the world wide web for nothing. You can get sucked in and trapped there"." | Louise Welsh | ||
| 156bf8f | 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. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| db7d3ce | Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| d71b38b | What good is having the heart of a lion if you cannot roar? | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 8b9819c | 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. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 0fecb16 | The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 454b459 | 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. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 2229ff3 | together they watched the fireflies twinkle in and out like hopes in the darkness. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 79ab792 | Look to the plank of wood in your own eye before you remove the mote of sawdust from mine | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 978445d | Everyone knew that; everyone was prepared until it happened to them | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| f63a2f9 | 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 .. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 122fe9f | Those who walk with their heads in the air usually don't see the shit on the ground until they tread in it. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 0dbdb1b | seneschals | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| ed7afc6 | We must all sleep alone in the tomb, my love, but in life we are joined as one flesh - as our children attest. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| f4bd339 | 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. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| a487826 | I know the difference between the confection of live as sung in a minstrel's tale and the sustaining bread of love in reality, he defended himself. Both are to be savoured in their own way. | love reality | Elizabeth Chadwick | |
| bbccdf2 | the | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| a6200bb | It came to him that life moved in circles like the ripples radiating from a stone cast into a pool. . . Now he was on the outer ring of the last ripple, journeying to fulfill the cycle. Or perhaps the cycle was already complete and he was about to cast another stone. | life | Elizabeth Chadwick | |
| a746adf | She crossed herself and gazed at the windows, shedding rainbow colours on the chapel's stone floor. The light from these windows shone just the same as it had when Harry was alive; that had not changed. And she must go on the same too, unchanging, for even when the sun did not shine the colours in the glass still existed. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| e78f7ec | Alienor raised her eyebrows. "I can see straight through your ruse," she said. "Even if it is not plain on your face, Aimery de Niort is giving the game away." She glanced toward the young knight who was holding his own horse at the ready, his expression expectant and smug." | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 59062ab | Bishops of Rouen, Fecamp and Jumieges. A | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 389c1e7 | having something that meant everything was a double-edged sword. It meant you had so much more to lose. *** | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 13a21c9 | afternoon and the furniture is all assembled. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| b7d3b65 | In the Middle Ages it was a given that all animals and birds had a name relating to their kind. All cats, for example, were either Gylbert or Tybald (hence Tibbles); all sparrows were Philip. All redbreasts were Robin, and wrens were Jenny. And all monkeys were Robert. Still | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 09ac135 | It seemed as close as yesterday, and as distant as the end of the world. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 37976d7 | his gaze. 'But then my responsibilities would be much greater, | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 919a033 | Just remember when temptation comes your way that a boy will drink beyond his means and a man will know when he's had enough." "Yes," | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 65d9a6c | She had become an expert at wearing masks, so much so that sometimes it was difficult to find her true self beneath the layers: | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 5d84100 | While writing The Summer Queen, I was constantly told that Alienor was a "woman ahead of her time." But my own take is that she was a woman of her time doing her best within the boundaries of what society would permit. Any attempt to go outside those boundaries was immediately and sometimes brutally quashed, but she was nothing if not resilient. I" | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 30810bb | talking to the knights--jesting | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| e48662e | 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." "And" | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 88e735f | Just because you forget the world does not mean that the world forgets you. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 6f4473f | because there are no winners in this sorry state of affairs. We are all losers; we are all diminished. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 74bd12d | the world was a place where those who had power could do what they wanted and those without it were the victims. The world would try to make him its victim, so it was always best to strike first. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 231b77a | As she prayed, she thought of Mary, holding her infant son in her lap, nurturing and sustaining him through his childhood, and then watching all that love and care dying tortured on the cross. But in dying, the Blessed Virgin's son had granted eternal life to all. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| cf130e2 | brotherly love | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 53caad9 | Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman's armor in this world whether Bernard of Clairvaux approved or not. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| bd15c4f | I have memories of him that are like jewels, and others that are stones but my memories of you are always consistent, Mama." "And are they jewels or stones." Alienor asked with a strained smile. "Neither," Matilda answered. "They are pure gold." | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| d940456 | Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| e0fe0ce | she had made a bargain with Rolf | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 32e844c | The language of power was exercised in more than just words. It was presence and thought; it was gesture and timing. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| e26a1df | Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman's armor in this world | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 47fa350 | I've not come this far, fought this hard, loved this much to lose it all before the feast has even begun. | Elizabeth Chadwick |