“I prefer to be left alone with my books.”
― Alison Weir, quote from Innocent Traitor
“If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by”
― Alison Weir, quote from Innocent Traitor
“You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none”
― Alison Weir, quote from Innocent Traitor
“I cannot go with you all the way on your journey, but I would go as far as I might”
― Alison Weir, quote from Innocent Traitor
“I steel myself to ignore his taunts and his coarse language. I no longer care what he says or does. It doesn't matter anymore. I am detached, contained in my own private world where he cannot reach me. It is my last refuge.”
― Alison Weir, quote from Innocent Traitor
“But I wish you to know that, were I just Edward and you just Jane, I would prefer to marry you. We accord well together, and have similar views… Kings cannot make their own choices. I wished you to know that”
― Alison Weir, quote from Innocent Traitor
“His handsome face is suffused with rage. He stands before me shaking, then to my disgust, bursts into noisy tears; "I shall tell my mother of you!" he sobs and crashes out of the chamber”
― Alison Weir, quote from Innocent Traitor
“I will never give him the satisfaction of knowing how much he has wounded and enraged me. In my silence lies my strength.”
― Alison Weir, quote from Innocent Traitor
“My lady, for your virtue and goodness, God would receive you in rags.”
― Alison Weir, quote from Innocent Traitor
“There are too many Dudleys already in this world”
― Alison Weir, quote from Innocent Traitor
Alison Weir
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date January 1, 1951
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“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, quote from The Souls of Black Folk
“La palabra chingar, con todas estas múltiples significaciones, define gran parte de nuestra vida y califica nuestras relaciones con el resto de nuestros amigos y compatriotas. Para el mexicano la vida es una posibilidad de chingar o ser chingado. Es decir, de humillar, castigar y ofender. O a la inversa. Esta concepción de la vida social como combate engendra fatalmente la división de la sociedad en fuertes y débiles. Los fuertes – los chingones sin escrúpulos, duros e inexorables– se rodean de fidelidades ardientes e interesadas. EL servilismo ante los poderosos – especialmente entre la casta de los "políticos" esto es, de los profesionales de los negocios públicos– es una de las deplorables consecuencias de esta situación . Otra, no menos degradante es la adhesión a las personas y no a los principios. Con frecuencia nuestros políticos confunden los negocios públicos con los privados. No importa. Su riqueza o su influencia en la administración les permite sostener una mesnada que el pueblo llama, muy atinadamente, de "lambiscones" (de lamer).”
― Octavio Paz, quote from The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
“Still more. When I was three, and four, and five years of age, I was not yet I. I was a mere becoming, a flux of spirit not yet cooled solid in the mold of my particular flesh and time and place. In that period all that I had ever been in ten thousand lives before strove in me, and troubled the flux of me, in the effort to incorporate itself in me and become me.”
― Jack London, quote from The Star Rover
“Y sin pensármelo dos veces, sin preocuparme por las consecuencias, le agarré la cara y tiré de ella hacia la mía, y nuestras bocas se encontraron con tanto ímpetu que me dolió de la forma más dulce posible.”
― Annabel Pitcher, quote from Ketchup Clouds
“You mean everything to me. Everything I've done. All of it. You're the reason. The first and only reason.”
― Jay Kristoff, quote from Kinslayer
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