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The Act of Supremacy of 1534 had made King Henry VIII the Supreme Head of the Church and had removed England from papal authority. Henry moved to disband monastic institutions and either gifted their holdings to those he wished to elevate or sold them off to fund his military campaigns.
“Everyone has a past. It’s what makes them the person they are today. Just because the past comes calling once in a while doesn’t mean they are going to answer.”
“If someone had told me a year ago that we’d be dealing with a pandemic, I would have told them to stop snorting the good stuff. It was frying their brain. And here we are, living through a badly plotted sci-fi thriller with no end in sight. But we’re managing,” he added. “Because we’re resilient. It’s that resilience that has kept mankind going for centuries instead of lying down and putting an end to the misery that was life. People overcome. Always.”
Everyone had their problems, and they were frequently the result of their own destructive decision-making.
in books, as in life, people didn’t always do the right thing or uphold the values drummed into us as children.
“It’s life. You can either allow yourself to get caught up in all the negativity or find an alternative solution, which we did.”
“At the end of the day, every situation comes down to one thing—you can stay, or you can go, and no one can tell you which to choose.”
Every life was a succession of daily decisions that led to its eventual conclusion,
A child’s affliction was always blamed on the mother,
“Anything is possible, but is it probable? In the words of the great Sherlock Holmes, ‘When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth,’”
