Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes
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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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It alters you irrevocably when you reach 30 years old and see a rip in the fabric of your dreams for every one of those years. Suddenly you're threadbare to the world.
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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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Together they watched the fireflies twinkle in and out like hopes in the darkness.
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Everyone knew that; everyone was prepared until it happened to them.
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Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.
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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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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.
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Because there are no winners in this sorry state of affairs. We are all losers; we are all diminished.
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All that remained were poignant memories, and she must face reality, not live on dreams.
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I've not come this far, fought this hard, loved this much to lose it all before the feast has even begun.
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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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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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Those who walk with their heads in the air usually don’t see the shit on the ground until they tread in it.
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...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.
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There was a dark satisfaction in choosing to remain wounded, yet he had seen what happened to Henry when he cut himself off from love.
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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.
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Just remember when temptation comes your way that a boy will drink beyond his means and a man will know when he’s had enough.
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Just because you forget the world does not mean that the world forgets you.
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The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.
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I have missed you beyond all reason, and that there is not a kissing bunch large enough in that hall to show you how much.
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And what is truth, since it changes according to each individual's perception?
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It was the truth, but that made it no more palatable.
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Worrying about them would make no difference, unless it diminished her ability to cope.