“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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“He said that it was not his job to ensure that his soldiers died for their country. It was his job to make sure the other poor bastards died for theirs. Understand?”
― Frederick Forsyth, quote from The Fist of God
“No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.”
― Kristin Hannah, quote from On Mystic Lake
“Scott Duncan sat across from the killer. The windowless room of thundercloud gray was awkward and still, stuck in that lull when the music first starts and neither stranger is sure how to begin the dance. Scott tried a noncommittal nod. The killer, decked out in prison-issue orange, simply stared. Scott folded his hands and put them on the metal table. The killer—his file said he was Monte Scanlon, but there was no way that was his real name—might have done likewise had his hands not been cuffed. Why,”
― Harlan Coben, quote from Just One Look
“You don't need meat at every meal," Riley offered, forking another bite of salad into his mouth and inwardly agreeing with Jack that it was certainly lacking something. Jack was quiet for all of ten seconds, and then he couldn't hold in his opinion one second more. "Are you really a Texan? I mean, really? Riley, if I have a headache, I'd put bacon around an aspirin before I take it.”
― R.J. Scott, quote from The Heart of Texas
“It's a bad dream: my English teacher is standing naked at the foot of this slightly lumpy bed, clutching a pair of not-quite-white underpants in his hand, studying me with this creepy look on his face, the one he gets when he's reading aloud in class and wants us to think he's moved by the passage.”
― Tom Perrotta, quote from Election
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