“It did not do to give your heart to a man so entirely, she thought. Men did not value what they came by easily. Once you loved, you laid yourself open to pain.”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Lady Elizabeth
“She had already decided that, when she grew up, she was going to do whatever she pleased and not let anyone order her about.”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Lady Elizabeth
“I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Lady Elizabeth
“I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles.”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Lady Elizabeth
“But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Lady Elizabeth
“Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Lady Elizabeth
“What she loved was being admired, being wanted, being pursued—but she did not think she wanted ever to be caught.”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Lady Elizabeth
“Kat embraced her, concealing her dismay as best she could. For these few months, fraught as they were, Elizabeth had been entirely hers again.”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Lady Elizabeth
“Life was good, and already she understood that to be aware of happiness when you were actually feeling it, and not just in retrospect, was to be happy indeed.”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Lady Elizabeth
“He was not afraid, in fact he was content to go: So much that had been pleasurable in his life was now beyond his capacity, and that he could not bear.”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Lady Elizabeth
“Some of my subjects do not know what is good for them,”
― Alison Weir, quote from The Lady Elizabeth
Alison Weir
Born place: in London, The United Kingdom
Born date January 1, 1951
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“Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.”
― Michel Faber, quote from The Crimson Petal and the White
“What’s happened?” screamed Mrs. Twit. They stood in the middle of the room, looking up. All the furniture, the big table, the chairs, the sofa, the lamps, the little side tables, the cabinet with bottles of beer in it, the ornaments, the electric heater, the carpet, everything was stuck upside down to the ceiling. The pictures were upside down on the walls. And the floor they were standing on was absolutely bare. What’s more, it had been painted white to look like the ceiling.”
― Roald Dahl, quote from The Twits
“Don't you even think of holding back, or I'll...I'll tell Spade you let me get away from you," she improvised.
"And that I got mugged," she added for good measure.
Cries of "Mon Dieu!" and "That's not fair!" echoed immediately from the two vampires.
"I'm a crazy human female, you know I'll do it," Denise warned them”
― Jeaniene Frost, quote from First Drop of Crimson
“I think about our marriage. The weft of our seventeen years together was so easily torn apart. Our love was as ordinary as the identical welcome mats found in the suburbs we grew up in. The fact that our bodies, our thoughts, our hearts had once moved in rhythm with each other had only fooled us into thinking we were special.”
― Amy Tan, quote from The Hundred Secret Senses
“So long as we have more politicians than statesmen, we shall have problems.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, quote from Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
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