Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes
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Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.
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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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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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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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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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Done was done and could not be changed, but the future was a different matter.
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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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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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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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The darkest prisons were those of the mind.
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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 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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Let your deeds be your bond, not your promises and cajolery.
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To have power and contentment at the same time, that is a rare thing indeed.
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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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You fall over, you get up again.
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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.
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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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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.
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And what is truth, since it changes according to each individual's perception?
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Sometimes a river runs on the surface, and sometimes it runs underground, but always it is present. Even if you do not see it, you can feel it.
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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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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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Everyone knew that; everyone was prepared until it happened to them.