The Autumn Throne Quotes

“That you should choose your battles wisely. You cannot fight everything and win. Sometimes the price of losing is beyond what you can afford to pay, but that applies to winning as well.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“Perhaps the most important lesson I have learned is to embrace the small pleasures and turn them into lasting memories.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“That springtime does not last forever and that the fine seasons should have their harvest gathered and stored against harsher times. That you should choose your battles wisely. You cannot fight everything and win. Sometimes the price of losing is beyond what you can afford to pay, but that applies to winning as well.” She narrowed her focus on the girls. “Be very careful and think before you act. Make friends with those who you know will stay true to you and reward them fittingly.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was greatness in the female side of her line, and if she could nurture it and enhance its luster, then she would.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to warm your body a little, but which burned you to the bone instead.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“The women were active, the men passive, and that made Richenza smile as she absorbed wisdom in that moment. Her grandmother had often been told she did not know her place, but truly she did.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to warm your body a little, but which burned you to the bone instead. Now the ashes are cold, and sometimes you remember that even when your hand was in the flames, you still had a terrible need to thrust it deeper.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“golden jaunce, sprinkled with sandalwood.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“You should be side by side, fighting the common foe. You will never know a similar relationship in your life. He is all you have left in terms of brotherhood and you should use him and appreciate him to the full and for your own good and for your mutual gain.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“have you ride.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“because there are no winners in this sorry state of affairs. We are all losers; we are all diminished.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“You are my daughter,” she said. “I will always stand in the storm for you.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“do not dwell in denial; I dwell in hope.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“embrace the small pleasures and turn them into lasting memories.” 31 The Alps, Winter 1190–1 Alienor and Berenguela pushed on with their journey, stopping at nightfall to claim hospitality at monasteries, castles, and towns that were friendly.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“Let your deeds be your bond, not your promises and cajolery.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“There was a dark satisfaction in choosing to remain wounded, yet he had seen what happened to Henry when he cut himself off from love.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“The light was muted gray in the moment before sunrise and the birdsong was a hymn to the new day and all the glorious business of living in the moment.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“You are wise, Mama.” “The price of experience,” she said. “I wish I had been wiser when I was younger.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“know we argued—at times I hated him—but I loved him too, and he was always there. Now there is a hole and I cannot bear to look at it, yet neither can I bear to cover it with earth.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“going anywhere,” he said. “Sleep.” He held and stroked her. Things could never be the same, but to be shown the light in the darkness was a wondrous gift from God and he was determined to follow it and find the path again.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“Sometimes a river runs on the surface, and sometimes it runs underground, but always it is present. Even if you do not see it, you can feel it.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“Alienor glanced across at the girls who were still oblivious of their fate as they sat over their game of chess. They had been born to be pieces on a board, but whether pawns or queens depended on the skill with which they played the game, and how clever their opponents were.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“... all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“Although she was in a fine humour and good spirits, she needed to recuperate. She was like a fine candle without enough wax to sustain the wick.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“What good is having the heart of a lion if you cannot roar?”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“Better the robes of a magnate and the hauberk of a warrior than to grow stale for want of challenges.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“Did he think to win them over like this? She remembered the boyish charm he had once possessed and wondered where it had gone. Perhaps like a bag of gold dust with an open top, the winds of time had swirled it away in a glittering spiral until there was nothing left but an empty pouch.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“I have memories of him that are like jewels, and others that are stones but my memories of you are always consistent, Mama."
"And are they jewels or stones." Alienor asked with a strained smile.
"Neither," Matilda answered. "They are pure gold.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne

“She crossed herself and gazed at the windows, shedding rainbow colours on the chapel's stone floor. The light from these windows shone just the same as it had when Harry was alive; that had not changed. And she must go on the same too, unchanging, for even when the sun did not shine the colours in the glass still existed.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Autumn Throne