#elizabeth

Kenric grabbed her arms and pulled her closer, shaking her once. "I've told you it will make no difference! Why are you doing this?" "Because I love you," she whispered brokenly. Those were the words. Of any she could have said to him, those were the only ones that could crumble his defenses. He'd heard them too often in his mind, certain she would never think to use them as a weapon. They sliced through him as cleanly as the sharpest knife. ↗

— Elizabeth Elliott

#kenric #tess #the-warlord #love

In memory, everything seems to happen to music. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#music

Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#north-and-south #infidelity

Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog. ↗

— Bob Dole

#cross #dog #elizabeth #i #red

The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later. ↗

— James Tobin

#elizabeth #fay #few #fortune #good

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. ↗

— Timothy West

#classes #classical #elizabethan #how #live

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot . ↗

— Jeff Greenfield

#elizabeth #fancy #footwork #get #going

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ↗

— Jane Austen

#dignity #elizabeth-bennet #empowerment #fear #independence

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#elizabeth #grandmothers #i #julia #named

If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#elizabeth #get #i #me #nice