“Did he think to win them over like this? She remembered the boyish charm he had once possessed and wondered where it… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“... all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.” — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“The language of power was exercised in more than just words. It was presence and thought; it was gesture and timing.” — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“I have memories of him that are like jewels, and others that are stones but my memories of you are always consistent, Mama." "And… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“Alienor glanced across at the girls who were still oblivious of their fate as they sat over their game of chess. They had been… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“Did he think to win them over like this? She remembered the boyish charm he had once possessed and wondered where it had gone.… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“Indeed, she had started to wonder if her blessings might be in her daughters and their progeny rather than in her sons. There was… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“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… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“For a man who professed to love God, he was filled with the vinegar of hatred and self-righteousness.” — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“No use wishing to be like other folks,' the maid said shrewdly. 'You have to learn to live at peace within your own skin.” — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“That you should choose your battles wisely. You cannot fight everything and win. Sometimes the price of losing is beyond what you can afford… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“It came to him that life moved in circles like the ripples radiating from a stone cast into a pool. . . Now he… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“I know the difference between the confection of live as sung in a minstrel's tale and the sustaining bread of love in reality, he… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“While writing The Summer Queen, I was constantly told that Alienor was a “woman ahead of her time.” But my own take is that… — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“Fight for your lord, fight for his honour, but never forget that you were fighting for yourself too.” — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
