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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d93393c | it would be all right. Not the same, not unchanged, but all right | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| d8c5406 | all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| fa32d55 | Alienor glanced across at the girls who were still oblivious of their fate as they sat over their game of chess. They had been born to be pieces on a board, but whether pawns or queens depended on the skill with which they played the game, and how clever their opponents were. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 114307e | No use wishing to be like other folks,' the maid said shrewdly. 'You have to learn to live at peace within your own skin. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 5f20d16 | there is love at first sight - so the troubadours say - and there is the love that you take on piece by piece - like armouring yourself . . .' A thoughtful look crossed his face. 'Or perhaps like removing your armour. How many people would you allow within the space between your heart and your shield | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| b965a99 | Brats," he muttered under his breath. "They take after you, my lord," Alienor said sweetly." | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| d179ed7 | Why in God's name did the idiot have to drop dead when all was going so well? I could almost think he has done it to spite me. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 9b979a1 | For a man who professed to love God, he was filled with the vinegar of hatred and self-righteousness. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 1fdc932 | going anywhere," he said. "Sleep." He held and stroked her. Things could never be the same, but to be shown the light in the darkness was a wondrous gift from God and he was determined to follow it and find the path again." | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| e11e62c | know we argued--at times I hated him--but I loved him too, and he was always there. Now there is a hole and I cannot bear to look at it, yet neither can I bear to cover it with earth. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| f6732c6 | because there comes a time when there is nothing left but hope, | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 693d4a1 | If her own situation was a cup of poison, then she should drink from it herself and not expect Isabel to sip. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 9189457 | I did everything I could." Tears scalded Alienor's eyes. "But it was not enough." | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| f33e266 | Without the light the beauty remains hidden," Gofrid said. "But it is always there." | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| c87d0e9 | Had she been male, she would have been granted a modicum of leeway, but as a woman she was damned as a whore | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 9b2c5b3 | What did it matter if no one cared, as long as she did herself? Relying on others was a dangerous way to live, and frequently a waste of time | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| f21f8d6 | You are wise, Mama." "The price of experience," she said. "I wish I had been wiser when I was younger." | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 3b3b387 | it was easier to be angry than to examine why | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 82bf687 | I have missed you beyond all reason, and that there is not a kissing bunch large enough in that hall to show you how much | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| d60b7ea | do not dwell in denial; I dwell in hope. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 66cc9b6 | You fit well into the hollow of my shoulder | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 0f87cd4 | The light was muted gray in the moment before sunrise and the birdsong was a hymn to the new day and all the glorious business of living in the moment. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| b98f58c | There was a dark satisfaction in choosing to remain wounded, yet he had seen what happened to Henry when he cut himself off from love. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| c5173e7 | To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| ba91257 | You are my daughter," she said. "I will always stand in the storm for you." | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 1728fa4 | It was the truth, but that made it no more palatable. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 76471f5 | embrace the small pleasures and turn them into lasting memories." 31 The Alps, Winter 1190-1 Alienor and Berenguela pushed on with their journey, stopping at nightfall to claim hospitality at monasteries, castles, and towns that were friendly." | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| c064ff9 | The rain whispered down, soft as the touch of cobwebs, shrouding the green of the land in swathes of clinging grey. Maude had grown accustomed to the damp climate, to the clouds that constantly swept in, heavy and moist, off the Irish Sea. She had become used to hearing the soft, guttural tongue of the native Gaels in place of French and the stretched vowels of the English; to feeling as if she was living on the edge of the world, where the.. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| edff7d9 | Where there's life there's hope,' he said sternly. 'Where there's life there's pain,' Oliver responded, but opened his eyes. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 4a24822 | And what is truth, since it changes according to each individual's perception? | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| b7475c9 | Sometimes love strikes like lightning, and its power is as blinding. Other times it comes gently, creeps up on you unawares and covers you like a blanket. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| e04fa47 | In the end, it is not the stones that matter, but the people who dwell within them. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 062ef8f | I would not have you follow me, but walk at my side. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| c58a529 | There were some parts of himself that he would probably never find because he dared not go looking for them in the shadows where she had cast them. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| d526044 | Not all that is plain is dross, | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| a110d61 | A]ll the worldly trappings of kingship were worthless frippery when it came to the soul. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| d1d2f21 | smile or a frown, agreement or disapproval was all it took to alter lives and atmospheres. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| 0d74215 | My lady, you must bend before you shatter and destroy everyone else into the bargain," she said. "What do you know?" Mellette snapped. "That our lives would be easier if you could find it within you to show some gentleness toward the living--no matter our unworthiness." | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| ff8e6d9 | Worrying about them would make no difference, unless it diminished her ability to cope. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| ecd0c66 | You always take for granted what you have until it is gone. And then you realize how much value it truly held in your life. | Elizabeth Chadwick | ||
| d83c602 | We were silly girls then. We thought only D. M. Thomas's The White Hotel and Helene Cixous and Anais Nin's Delta of Venus managed to match our state of excitement. We were at it all the time. You were my first woman, as you probably don't remember." "I know that, don't be cruel." Martha stopped the car at the Parliament Street light and for a moment the only sound heard was the signal light ticking. "We had a private double entendre about t.. | Lydia Perovic | ||
| 4b0a750 | Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. | Bahá'í Faith | ||
| 49c6c05 | Stop thinking about failing. | Ben Carson | ||
| 1a91491 | However it--or the kind of extreme individualistic epistemology it embraces--can lead historians to an overly skeptical approach particularly to those sources that were intended to recount and inform events of the past, that is, testimony in this restricted sense. Particularly in Gospels scholarship there is an attitude abroad that approaches the sources with fundamental skepticism, rather than trust, and therefore requires that anything th.. | christ-myth-theory christian-gnosticism christian-history christian-mystics church conversion-of-paul epistles epistles-of-paul facts gentile gnostic gnostic-gospels gnosticism gospel-of-john grosticicm historical-facts historicity-of-jesus historicity-of-paul jewish mystics paul solomon synoptic-gospels tanakh wisdom | Richard Bauckham |