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Am I worthy of Juliet, I wondered, worthy as my father was of my mother?

Robin Maxwell

Am I worthy of Juliet, I wondered, worthy as my father was of my mother?

Tags: parental love, romeo and juliet

She shocked me. Truly rocked the ground beneath my feet. Made the air shimmer with her power and grace. The woman had slipped free the prison of rules that governed us all and met me halfway to paradi...

Robin Maxwell

She shocked me. Truly rocked the ground beneath my feet. Made the air shimmer with her power and grace. The woman had slipped free the prison of rules that governed us all and met me halfway to paradi...

Tags: romeo and juliet, true love

About Author
Robin Maxwell may refer to:

Robin Maxwell (author) (born 1948), American author of historical fiction
Robin Maxwell-Hyslop (1931–2010), British Conservative Politician
Robin Maxwell, fictional character in the science fiction series V

Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.

Robin Maxwell

Danger sweetens the brew. Makes it more delicious.

Tags: danger, dangerous people

O’Neill could feel rising off them devotion and love for him, and he knew they would lay down their lives for their high chieftain and for the new cause, only now taking shape in their heads. The caus...

Robin Maxwell

O’Neill could feel rising off them devotion and love for him, and he knew they would lay down their lives for their high chieftain and for the new cause, only now taking shape in their heads. The caus...

For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.

Robin Maxwell

For men love what they cannot have, and hate what they cannot control.

Tyrone, after wandering with his family through France, the Netherlands, and Germany, finally took up residence in Italy, subsidized by the Pope. Every night, deep in his cups, he would brag that come...

Robin Maxwell

Tyrone, after wandering with his family through France, the Netherlands, and Germany, finally took up residence in Italy, subsidized by the Pope. Every night, deep in his cups, he would brag that come...

If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch’s works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul.

Robin Maxwell

If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarch’s works will contain the scattered fragments of your soul.

You cannot know he said simply. Very little is certain in this life, my lady.

Robin Maxwell

You cannot know he said simply. Very little is certain in this life, my lady.

Tags: uncertainty

There were more serious days, when the Brehon judges would come round on their circuit of Connaught to hear the civil suits, and cases of crimes committed in my father’s territories. ’Twas our ancient...

Robin Maxwell

There were more serious days, when the Brehon judges would come round on their circuit of Connaught to hear the civil suits, and cases of crimes committed in my father’s territories. ’Twas our ancient...

Am I pretty? I must be, I thought, for all girls in love are pretty.

Robin Maxwell

Am I pretty? I must be, I thought, for all girls in love are pretty.

I whispered to my mother that if I were forced to marry the snot-nosed little thug, I’d do as Brigid of Kildare had done when pressed to marry—thrust her finger into her eye, pullin’ it from the socke...

Robin Maxwell

I whispered to my mother that if I were forced to marry the snot-nosed little thug, I’d do as Brigid of Kildare had done when pressed to marry—thrust her finger into her eye, pullin’ it from the socke...

TIBBOT NE LONG BURKE, hard-pressed to choose sides in the Irish rebellion, finally made his decision at the battle of Kinsale. On his own volition he mustered a force of three hundred men and marched...

Robin Maxwell

TIBBOT NE LONG BURKE, hard-pressed to choose sides in the Irish rebellion, finally made his decision at the battle of Kinsale. On his own volition he mustered a force of three hundred men and marched...

Grace rose from her chair and Elizabeth too came to her feet. I thought your arse would be sore by now, said Grace. It is a bit. You have to be careful when you ask the Irish to tell you a story.

Robin Maxwell

Grace rose from her chair and Elizabeth too came to her feet. I thought your arse would be sore by now, said Grace. It is a bit. You have to be careful when you ask the Irish to tell you a story.

Everyone knows that for a woman to conceive in the act of coition she, as well as the man. must be satisfied. Is that not true?Of corse it is true.

Robin Maxwell

Everyone knows that for a woman to conceive in the act of coition she, as well as the man. must be satisfied. Is that not true?Of corse it is true.

Tags: martial satisfaction

Era riuscita a tenere con se un pezzo dell'anima di sua madre, che avrebbe per sempre fatto parte di lei, una spina dorsale per mantenerla forte negli anni a venire, un secondo cuore che avrebbe battu...

Robin Maxwell

Era riuscita a tenere con se un pezzo dell'anima di sua madre, che avrebbe per sempre fatto parte di lei, una spina dorsale per mantenerla forte negli anni a venire, un secondo cuore che avrebbe battu...

We Irish were alone, of all countries, in this way of choosing our leaders. Everywhere else in the world ’tis a firstborn son who’s heir to the title—in England, your primogeniture—and no questions as...

Robin Maxwell

We Irish were alone, of all countries, in this way of choosing our leaders. Everywhere else in the world ’tis a firstborn son who’s heir to the title—in England, your primogeniture—and no questions as...

What’s more—O’Neill’s eyes brimmed with tears—they’ve a cause, Grace. She placed her hand over his. I know that, Hugh. ’Tis an ‘Irish cause,’ and we’ve never known that here before. There’s not anothe...

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What’s more—O’Neill’s eyes brimmed with tears—they’ve a cause, Grace. She placed her hand over his. I know that, Hugh. ’Tis an ‘Irish cause,’ and we’ve never known that here before. There’s not anothe...

So why submit? I know this as sure as I’m sittin’ here across the roast from you. They’re tryin’ to bury our law and eradicate our language. And once they take your name, they’ll take your freedom too...

Robin Maxwell

So why submit? I know this as sure as I’m sittin’ here across the roast from you. They’re tryin’ to bury our law and eradicate our language. And once they take your name, they’ll take your freedom too...

The last days of GRACE O’MALLEY’S life are a mystery. There are records of her ships—if not personally captained by her—still patrolling the western Irish coast in mid 1601. She seems to have lived at...

Robin Maxwell

The last days of GRACE O’MALLEY’S life are a mystery. There are records of her ships—if not personally captained by her—still patrolling the western Irish coast in mid 1601. She seems to have lived at...

News arrived several days later of the appalling defeat of Elizabeth’s army by the Irish rebels at Blackwater Fort—a defeat now infamously known as the Battle of the Yellow Ford. The Earl of Tyrone—in...

Robin Maxwell

News arrived several days later of the appalling defeat of Elizabeth’s army by the Irish rebels at Blackwater Fort—a defeat now infamously known as the Battle of the Yellow Ford. The Earl of Tyrone—in...