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#1

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

tags: humbert-humbert, love

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#2

“Erik: Are you very tired?
Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.”
― Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

tags: favorite, lyrical, romantic

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#3

“It is the province of the tarot reader to move backwards, forwards, even sideways in time.”
― Sasha Graham, 365 Tarot Spreads: Revealing the Magic in Each Day

tags: 365-tarot-spreads, sasha-graham, tarot-divination, tarot-reader, tarot-reading

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#4

“Tarot is always whispering to you. Tarot weaves truth, stories, secrets, and tales. All you need to do is slow down and listen.”
― Sasha Graham, Tarot Diva: Ignite Your Intuition Glamourize Your Life Unleash Your Fabulousity!

tags: divination, listen, sasha-graham, tales, tarot, tarot-diva, tarot-secrets, truth, whisper

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#5

“Her unusual dark hair and sultry eyes made her stand out--- Anne Boleyn was Tudor England's Angelina Jolie amid a sea of Reese Witherspoons.”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

tags: anne-boleyn, beauty, history, power

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#6

“The Executioner shall not have much trouble, for I have a little neck. I shall be known as La Reine Sans Tete”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

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#7

“In ancient times, women who had ceased their monthly flow were believed to hold their life-giving powers within themselves, like the dark moon. They were thought to be creating something powerful with their retained womb blood—pregnant with wisdom instead of new life. Valued and honored in their communities, these sage women had skills and powers no younger woman could possess. Like Hekate, they were crones, crowned”
― Kris Waldherr, The Book of Goddesses: Expanded Anniversary Edition

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#8

“As you climb to success over the dead, don't alienate the living.”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

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#9

“First things first: Marie Antoinette never said, 'Let them eat cake.' Those words were attributed to an earlier French Queen, Marie-Therese, the wife of the Sun King Louis XIV. By 1767---a year in which Marie Antoinette was still an innocent German-speaking twelve-year-old in Austria....”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

tags: france, let-them-eat-cake, marie-antoinette, queen-marie-therese

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#10

“To be a queen , do you have to rule a country or marry a king? Not necessarily---there are other ways to be considered royal today. For example, take Elizabeth Taylor or Jacqueline Onassis. Would you dare to call either of these grand dames less than regal?”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

tags: american-royalty, elizabeth-taylor, grand-dames, jacqueline-onassis, queens, royalty

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#11

“In ancient Greece, the earth was personified as a mysterious goddess called Gaia. A cosmic, procreative womb who emerged out of the primeval void called Chaos, it was believed Gaia existed before all other life. It was also believed that Gaia created all of life. In Roman mythology, she was known as Terra. At”
― Kris Waldherr, The Book of Goddesses: Expanded Anniversary Edition

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#12

“Cautionary Tale: Blood is seldom thicker than blood.”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

tags: blood-thicker-than-water, queens

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#13

“What exactly was it about Egypt that encouraged women rulers to set their caps so high? The historian Herodotus proposed that things were just different there: 'The people, in most of their manners and customs, exactly reverse the common practice of mankind. For example women attend the markets and trade, while men sit at home at the loom..., Women urinate standing up, men sitting down....”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

tags: egypt, female-empowerment, ptolemaic-dynasty, queens

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#14

“Though a picture tells a story, it may not reveal the truth.”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

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#15

“she worked and prayed for the welfare of humans for over ten million years. Then she was transformed into a goddess whose only desire was to ease the world’s pain.”
― Kris Waldherr, The Book of Goddesses: Expanded Anniversary Edition

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#16

“OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES
It is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other.
~Empress Irene~”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

tags: deceit, deception, empress-irene, success, women, women-s-strength

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#17

“her true name is never spoken aloud.”
― Kris Waldherr, The Book of Goddesses: Expanded Anniversary Edition

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#18

“WHILE THE WORLD IS not a vale of tears, there are times when it seems more so than others. As strong as we may be, these are the times we need a special power—the potent strength of the Divine Feminine.”
― Kris Waldherr, The Book of Goddesses: Expanded Anniversary Edition

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#19

“To keep your head. quit while you are ahead.”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

tags: doomed-queens

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#20

“At her funeral, Diana's brother observed, 'Of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this--- a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of our modern age.”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

tags: death, goddess-diana, history, life, princess-diana, sad-lives

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#21

“Religion can take you only so far.”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

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#22

“Cautionary Moral: Don't let your heart overrule your head.”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

tags: good-advice, heart-vs-head, moral

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#23

“The truth is that, in times of turmoil, people look for a scapegoat to sacrifice. Marie Antoinette just happened to be the French Revolution's favorite It girl. To be fair, Marie Antoinette lived in a world which she was expected to obey her husband as if he were God,, to spill forth children as if she were Eve--- and then accept that aristocrats ate cake while peasants had no bread. After all, it was divine will and all that.”
― Kris Waldherr, Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di

tags: france, french-revolution, marie-antoinette

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#24

“I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire.”
― Edward Burne-Jones

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