Having something that meant everything was a double-edged sword. It meant you had so much more to lose. ***
Everyone knew that; everyone was prepared until it happened to them
Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.
Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.
Afternoon and the furniture is all assembled.
Worrying about them would make no difference, unless it diminished her ability to cope.
Where there's life there's hope,' he said sternly. 'Where there's life there's pain,' Oliver responded, but opened his eyes.
Because there comes a time when there is nothing left but hope,
All his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.
Together they watched the fireflies twinkle in and out like hopes in the darkness.
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.
And what is truth, since it changes according to each individual's perception?
Have you ride.
Because to outwit your rivals, first you had to know their ways and how to play their games.
Smile or a frown, agreement or disapproval was all it took to alter lives and atmospheres.
You are my daughter, she said. I will always stand in the storm for you.
Fight for your lord, fight for his honour, but never forget that you were fighting for yourself too.
Brotherly love
Had she been male, she would have been granted a modicum of leeway, but as a woman she was damned as a whore
The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.
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