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If it was her time to die, then far better to face death with her sword in her hand than sit waiting for her enemies to strike again.
She couldn’t account for what was happening to her, but she wasn’t going to give in.
What will happen will happen, whether I wish it or no. So, yes, I accept. It does not mean that I like it or wish it were not otherwise.”
There is no protection against love, once it chooses to exert its power.
The Bons Homes valued inner faith above outward display. They needed no consecrated buildings, no superstitious rituals, no humiliating obeisance designed to keep ordinary men apart from God. They did not worship images nor prostrate themselves before idols or instruments of torture. For the Bons Chrétiens, the power of God lay in the word. They needed only books and prayers, words spoken and read aloud. Salvation was nothing to do with the alms or relics or Sabbath prayers spoken in a language only the priests understood.
Stories shift their shape, change character, take on different colors depending on the words you use, the language in which you choose to tell them.
History is written by the victorious, the liars, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.”
