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.
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
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.
What good is having the heart of a lion if you cannot roar?
Without the light the beauty remains hidden, Gofrid said. But it is always there.
Do not dwell in denial; I dwell in hope.
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.
Seneschals
She had made a bargain with Rolf
Talking to the knights—jesting
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.
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.
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.
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...
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 you...
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.
It alters you irrevocably when you reach 30 years old and
It seemed as close as yesterday, and as distant as the end of the world.
It was the truth, but that made it no more palatable.
Let your deeds be your bond, not your promises and cajolery.
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