#nights

For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#flower #heart #heretofore #i #kings

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#days #eat #italy #like #nights

As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#cuts #going #job #keeping #less

I think every entertainer's had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can't remember everything all the time, and especially if you're having hard times personally, things going on that you - you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#especially #every #everything #feel #go

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#aspiring #dream #fascinating #first #first thing

He looked younger, kinder, a brighter image of the man she knew. A man life hadn’t mistreated or betrayed. Whatever the pain of this union, she loved that she gave him this momentary peace. This encounter lurched from the physical onto a different plane. A plane revealing a new emotional landscape. She felt lightheaded, lost. ↗

— Anna Campbell

#jonas #seven-nights #sidonie #life

...because it was then, as he held her in his unwavering gaze, that she knew she was in love with him as well. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love

This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#king-arthur #knights #love #magic #merlin

She would but be repaid by my taking her to wife, and that I could not grant her, for love cometh of the heart and mot by constraint. ↗

— Rupert S. Holland

#lancelot #love #medieval #love

Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn. ↗

— Tanya Huff

#knights #sneaking #stealth #men