Elizabeth Chadwick Quotes

#1. She never knew from one moment to the next how he was going to behave toward her and therefore she constantly had to adjust her balance. It was exhausting.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#2. Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#3. When the need is so great, no matter how much love you pour into a bowl, it will never be full. Or sometimes it is damaged, and the love all runs out through the hole in the bottom.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#4. What kind of a promise ?
One that only a fool asks of a madman

Elizabeth Chadwick

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

Elizabeth Chadwick

#6. 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.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#7. 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.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#8. I know the difference between the confection of live as sung in a minstrel's tale and the sustaining bread of love in reality, he defended himself. Both are to be savoured in their own way.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#9. 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.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#10. It came to him that life moved in circles like the ripples radiating from a stone cast into a pool ... Now he was on the outer ring of the last ripple, journeying to fulfill the cycle. Or perhaps the cycle was already complete and he was about to cast another stone.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#11. 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.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#12. 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.

Elizabeth Chadwick

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

Elizabeth Chadwick

#14. 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.

Elizabeth Chadwick

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

Elizabeth Chadwick

#16. Just remember when temptation comes your way that a boy will drink beyond his means and a man will know when he's had enough." "Yes,

Elizabeth Chadwick

#17. 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.

Elizabeth Chadwick

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

Elizabeth Chadwick