Everyone knew that; everyone was prepared until it happened to them
Having something that meant everything was a double-edged sword. It meant you had so much more to lose. ***
Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.
Had she been male, she would have been granted a modicum of leeway, but as a woman she was damned as a whore
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.
Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.
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.
Worrying about them would make no difference, unless it diminished her ability to cope.
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 sh...
Because to outwit your rivals, first you had to know their ways and how to play their games.
Where there's life there's hope,' he said sternly. 'Where there's life there's pain,' Oliver responded, but opened his eyes.
Smile or a frown, agreement or disapproval was all it took to alter lives and atmospheres.
All his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.
Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.
You are my daughter, she said. I will always stand in the storm for you.
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.
Afternoon and the furniture is all assembled.
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.
Together they watched the fireflies twinkle in and out like hopes in the darkness.
Have you ride.
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