Quotes from Elizabeth Chadwick

Brats," he muttered under his breath. "They take after you, my lord," Alienor said sweetly.

Why in God's name did the idiot have to drop dead when all was going so well? I could almost think he has done it to spite me.

I suspect he would rather have lived.

For a man who professed to love God, he was filled with the vinegar of hatred and self-righteousness.

I will never go beyond the love I have for you

going anywhere," he said. "Sleep." He held and stroked her. Things could never be the same, but to be shown the light in the darkness was a wondrous gift from God and he was determined to follow it and find the path again.

talking to the knights—jesting

There was a time when I thought I could change everything. I have learned the hard way that we only have so much strength: better to use it for fights where we stand a chance of winning." "And

Those who walk with their heads in the air usually don't see the shit on the ground until they tread in it.

Just because you forget the world does not mean that the world forgets you.

Done was done and could not be changed, but the future was a different matter.

Your enemies have neither the proof nor the backbone to stand against you, but say something often enough in vulnerable ears and incredulity turns to belief.

Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one

Deeds may speak more compellingly than words,but I believe words have their place too. A man who has both is gifted indeed.

Chretien speaking to Dominic: 'Magda is no ordinary young woman. There is a blood price on her head way beyond that upon any Cathar, indeed way beyond mine. I advise you most strongly to think with your head, not your loins.' 'I am thinking,' Dominic said softly, 'with my heart.

she knew what such grief was like and she had built her own defenses high over the years. But if you raised them too much, they became a prison and in the end you drowned with no one to hear you scream.

Without the light the beauty remains hidden," Gofrid said. "But it is always there. Just like God's love, or a father's, or a mother's. Remember that, Alienor. You are loved, whether you see it or not.

There will be a great hole in the fabric of my being when he is gone, but not as great a hole as the one had I not known him.

It alters you irrevocably when you reach 30 years old and see a rip in the fabric of your dreams for every one of those years. Suddenly you're threadbare to the world.

Fight for your lord, fight for his honour, but never forget that you were fighting for yourself too.

Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride.

You fall over, you get up again.

There was a time when I thought I could change everything. I have learned the hard way that we only have so much strength: better to use it for fights where we stand a chance of winning.

All that remained were poignant memories, and she must face reality, not live on dreams.