“Men like Robin were never content, and men like Robin were all she would ever love, grasping, ambitious reflections of herself... He would begin to plot and scheme behind her back, building up a court faction... To emerge from that final conflict as the victor, it would be necessary to kill him. And she knew she was capable of doing it-- it was as simple as that.”
― quote from Legacy
“He saw the Queen and saw her for the first time with the mask of friendship removed, a figure suddenly as ruthless and terrible as ever her father had been... All their dazzling intimacy was an illusion, a mere straw in the wind, for in the last resort he was but a subject, as her mother had been.”
― quote from Legacy
“Words spoken in the heat of the moment may be forgiven; words preserved for ever on parchment may overreach their mark once passion has abated.”
― quote from Legacy
“If the lion knew his true strength it were hard for any man rule him.”
― quote from Legacy
“To Renard's suspicious eye, Elizabeth's nebulous role at court had taken on a new and sinister signifiance. This unspoken Protestant heir presumptive was suddenly the greatest obstacle to Prince Philip's path to England and Renard had already resolved to dispose of her at his earliest conveneicne. Accordingly, he invited her to dance and tried his hand at a little subtle flattery. They manoevered delicately down the Hall, like two scorpions locked in mortal combat, but no matter how he tried, he could not get close enough to sting.”
― quote from Legacy
“Every man to the Devil his own way—as”
― quote from Legacy
“Like a beleaguered castle her mind was husbanding its resources, boarding every window, locking every door, shutting down unnecessary functions.”
― quote from Legacy
“I hate beds,” she said slowly. “They stand there night after night waiting for you to die in them. It’s like lying in a tomb.”
― quote from Legacy
“I tell you this, madam, no man at court will be able to fart soon without asking Cecil first.”
― quote from Legacy
“I am and not: I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself, my other self I turned.”
― quote from Legacy
“A woman who could look death squarely in the face and smile was beyond the plane of physical ruin.”
― quote from Legacy
“is a poor substitute for food to a child with an empty belly.”
― quote from Legacy
“The ruling of men was a dirty business—”
― quote from Legacy
“Suspicion, like bread, rises rapidly in a warm environment.”
― quote from Legacy
“When lovers play for kingdoms desire is not enough.”
― quote from Legacy
“Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.”
― quote from Voluntary
“It’s for this reason that, however counterintuitive it may seem, psychologists actually recommend that we fail early and often.”
― Shawn Achor, quote from The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
“She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to KNOW it.”
― Gregg Olsen, quote from Envy
“Fuel resources are very unevenly distributed, and any shortage of supplies, no matter how slight, would immediately divide the world into ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ along entirely novel lines. The specially favoured areas, such as the Middle East and North Africa, would attract envious attention on a scale scarcely imaginable today,”
― Ernst F. Schumacher, quote from Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“You keep seeking to redeem me. You keep looking and hoping. Painting me in emotions I do not have, nor can have.”
― Caroline Hanson, quote from Love Is Mortal
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