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“When I am gone, do not be weighed down by sadness. Be lifted by hope—the hope that we have always shared. Be rid of this life, be rid of every vestige of it—of me!”
they had been made for each other, intended from the time they ceased to be stars and took their first breaths in the world of the living.
“It is best not to lie. For every lie you tell you shall have to tell three more to cover for it, and three for each of those, and soon enough you’ll be trapped in your own web of lies times three.”
The men in power could not abide by a woman speaking her mind and gaining the admiration of others.
He knew this sentiment well. When one has such a spouse, one can only study them in awe, then look round at everyone else to see if they were just as awed.
I said to him, ‘I’m betrothed to another.’ And he said, ‘I know that, but that’s nothing that can’t be undone.’
“I wanted a man who had enough faith in his own worth, his strength, and his mind that he had no need to put on some absurd stage drama. I wanted a man who was confident enough in himself to handle the likes of me.”
He wanted no other, had not wanted any other from that moment.
Life is a wondrous thing, beyond the compass of mere words.
But when people cannot understand something, when they can’t make sense of a thing, they always become fearful.
A shiver went up Thomas’s spine at the mention of the Saint John’s tincture. It was the same that had caused their flight from London. He knew it had helped many, but it had also heaped much trouble upon them.
And were it not agreed upon by all religious creeds that he who took his own life affronted God, who gave that life as a precious gift, and risked eternal damnation in flame?
Seems that when a woman has too much knowledge or skill, or speaks her mind freely, these Puritans take great offense.”
Never underestimate 195how deeply power can corrupt even the most godly.
I did not deserve so good a husband as he, I never did. And he did not deserve to have such a burden for a wife.
