Elizabeth Chadwick > Quotes

“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, The Greatest Knight

“Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, Lady of the English

“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, The Greatest Knight

“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, Daughters of the Grail

“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, The Scarlet Lion

“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, The Winter Crown

“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, The Summer Queen

“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

“Fight for your lord, fight for his honour, but never forget that you were fighting for yourself too.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Greatest Knight

“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.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Crown

“You fall over, you get up again.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Time of Singing

“All that remained were poignant memories, and she must face reality, not live on dreams.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Summer Queen

“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, To Defy a King

“Being a king was not about pleasing people. It was about controlling them.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, Lady of the English

“Perhaps the most important lesson I have learned is to embrace the small pleasures and turn them into lasting memories.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“That you should choose your battles wisely. You cannot fight everything and win. Sometimes the price of losing is beyond what you can afford to pay, but that applies to winning as well.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“Grief was just the moment before you tied off the thread and began the next one. That was when you made your choice about what you were going to sew next.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, Lady of the English

“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, To Defy A King

“Because to outwit your rivals, first you had to know their ways and how to play their games.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Summer Queen

“The darkest prisons were those of the mind.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Crown

“That springtime does not last forever and that the fine seasons should have their harvest gathered and stored against harsher times. That you should choose your battles wisely. You cannot fight everything and win. Sometimes the price of losing is beyond what you can afford to pay, but that applies to winning as well.” She narrowed her focus on the girls. “Be very careful and think before you act. Make friends with those who you know will stay true to you and reward them fittingly.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“there is love at first sight - so the troubadours say - and there is the love that you take on piece by piece - like armouring yourself . . .' A thoughtful look crossed his face. 'Or perhaps like removing your armour. How many people would you allow within the space between your heart and your shield”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Falcons of Montabard

“...[A]ll the worldly trappings of kingship were worthless frippery when it came to the soul.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, Templar Silks

“What did it matter if no one cared, as long as she did herself? Relying on others was a dangerous way to live, and frequently a waste of time”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Love Knot

“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, The Summer Queen

“together they watched the fireflies twinkle in and out like hopes in the darkness.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Summer Queen

“Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was greatness in the female side of her line, and if she could nurture it and enhance its luster, then she would.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to warm your body a little, but which burned you to the bone instead.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“What kind of a promise ?
One that only a fool asks of a madman”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Greatest Knight

“it would be all right. Not the same, not unchanged, but all right”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, Lords of the White Castle