Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes
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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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Done was done and could not be changed, but the future was a different matter.
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That you should choose your battles wisely. You cannot fight everything and win. Sometimes the price of losing is beyond what you can afford to pay, but that applies to winning as well.
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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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Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.
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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.
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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.
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Did he think to win them over like this? She remembered the boyish charm he had once possessed and wondered where it had gone. Perhaps like a bag of gold dust with an open top, the winds of time had swirled it away in a glittering spiral until there was nothing left but an empty pouch.
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Just because you forget the world does not mean that the world forgets you.
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Your enemies have neither the proof nor the backbone to stand against you, but say something often enough in vulnerable ears and incredulity turns to belief.
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In the end, it is not the stones that matter, but the people who dwell within them.
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The darkest prisons were those of the mind.
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The light was muted gray in the moment before sunrise and the birdsong was a hymn to the new day and all the glorious business of living in the moment.
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You always take for granted what you have until it is gone. And then you realize how much value it truly held in your life.
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We must all sleep alone in the tomb, my love, but in life we are joined as one flesh - as our children attest.
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Let your deeds be your bond, not your promises and cajolery.
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Because to outwit your rivals, first you had to know their ways and how to play their games.
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When the need is so great, no matter how much love you pour into a bowl, it will never be full. Or sometimes it is damaged, and the love all runs out through the hole in the bottom.
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There were some parts of himself that he would probably never find because he dared not go looking for them in the shadows where she had cast them.
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Everyone knew that; everyone was prepared until it happened to them.
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Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman’s armor in this world whether Bernard of Clairvaux approved or not.
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
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Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one.
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She had become an expert at wearing masks, so much so that sometimes it was difficult to find her true self beneath the layers.