The Winter Crown Quotes

“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

“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

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

“If her own situation was a cup of poison, then she should drink from it herself and not expect Isabel to sip.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Crown

“I did everything I could.” Tears scalded Alienor’s eyes. “But it was not enough.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Crown

“Done was done and could not be changed, but the future was a different matter.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Crown

“Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Crown

“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.” “And”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Crown

“I suspect he would rather have lived.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Crown

“Why in God's name did the idiot have to drop dead when all was going so well? I could almost think he has done it to spite me.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Crown

“Brats," he muttered under his breath.
"They take after you, my lord," Alienor said sweetly.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Crown

“In the Middle Ages it was a given that all animals and birds had a name relating to their kind. All cats, for example, were either Gylbert or Tybald (hence Tibbles); all sparrows were Philip. All redbreasts were Robin, and wrens were Jenny. And all monkeys were Robert. Still”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Crown

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― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Crown