“Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, quote from Lady of the English
“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.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, quote from Lady of the English
“Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, quote from Lady of the English
“afternoon and the furniture is all assembled.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, quote from Lady of the English
“Those who walk with their heads in the air usually don’t see the shit on the ground until they tread in it.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, quote from Lady of the English
Elizabeth Chadwick
Born place: The United Kingdom
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“I have never seen the truth,” said Damien, “without crossing my eyes. Life is crazy.”
― Louise Erdrich, quote from The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
“Eloquence which does not startle I don’t consider eloquence.” CICERO, LETTER TO BRUTUS, 48 B.C.”
― Robert Harris, quote from Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
“Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone?
She'd found it easy, being pretty
To hitch a ride into the city.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from Revolting Rhymes
“Over the months since she had joined them, he had seen her attitude toward him change until they had shared a rather specialized kind of friendship. He liked her; she liked him. Everything had been fine up to that point. Why couldn't she just leave it alone? Garion surmised that it probably had something to do with the inner workings of the female mind. As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.”
― David Eddings, quote from Magician's Gambit
“He knew too what it was to live through a hurricane with the other people of the island and the bond that the hurricane made between all people who had been through it. He also knew that hurricanes could be so bad that nothing could live through them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, quote from Islands in the Stream
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