“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
“It has been said ever since that the Brankoviches of Erdély count in Tzintzar, lie in Walachian, are silent in Greek, sing hymns in Russian, are cleverest in Turkish and speak their mother tongue --Serbian-- only when they intend to kill.”
― Milorad Pavić, quote from Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon Novel in 100,000 Words
“girl of eighteen named Elsa Norgaard,”
― Wallace Stegner, quote from The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction)
“The Greek period inspired the greatest flowering of knowledge in human history, producing the forefathers of the entire Western intellectual tradition, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras and Euclid. It changed the world in ways both subtle and profound.”
― quote from Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do
“Alice might end up neither good nor bad. She might end up somewhere in between. That would make her very dangerous to know. That girl could be the bane of your life, a blight, a poison on everything you do. Or she might turn out to be the best and strongest friend you’ll ever have. Someone who’ll make all the difference in the world. I just don’t know which way it will go. I can’t see it, no matter how hard I try.”
― Joseph Delaney, quote from The Spook's Apprentice
“Women in love are pathetic
and I cannot be bothered, for now,
I am back to metaphysics
and my armpits gather hair.”
― Mie Hansson, quote from Where Pain Thrives
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