Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes
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... all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.
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Having something that meant everything was a double-edged sword. It meant you had so much more to lose.
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What good is having the heart of a lion if you cannot roar?
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I suspect he would rather have lived.
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Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was greatness in the female side of her line, and if she could nurture it and enhance its luster, then she would.
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Perhaps the most important lesson I have learned is to embrace the small pleasures and turn them into lasting memories.
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Fight for your lord, fight for his honour, but never forget that you were fighting for yourself too.
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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 dying, the Blessed Virgin's son had granted eternal life to all.
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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.
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When you look at them as babies in the cradle, you never know what they are going to become, but you always hope for the best.
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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. Now the ashes are cold, and sometimes you remember that even when your hand was in the flames, you still had a terrible need to thrust it deeper.
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The women were active, the men passive, and that made Richenza smile as she absorbed wisdom in that moment. Her grandmother had often been told she did not know her place, but truly she did.
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For a man who professed to love God, he was filled with the vinegar of hatred and self-righteousness.
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All the worldly trappings of kingship were worthless frippery when it came to the soul.
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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.
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Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.
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I would not have you follow me, but walk at my side.
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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.
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It came to him that life moved in circles like the ripples radiating from a stone cast into a pool. . . Now he was on the outer ring of the last ripple, journeying to fulfill the cycle. Or perhaps the cycle was already complete and he was about to cast another stone.
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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.
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Smile or a frown, agreement or disapproval was all it took to alter lives and atmospheres.
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She knew what such grief was like and she had built her own defenses high over the years. But if you raised them too much, they became a prison and in the end you drowned with no one to hear you scream.
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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.
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Had she been male, she would have been granted a modicum of leeway, but as a woman she was damned as a whore.