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21 " If, like the Romans, he must make a desert and call it peace, so be it. "
― Sharon Kay Penman , Falls the Shadow (Welsh Princes, #2)
22 " Edward Plantagenet is no man to hold cheaply. Far better to take him at his own inflated estimation! "
23 " In my life, I've been both the besieged and the besieged, and I know damned well which I prefer! "
24 " Louis shook his head. "Those who dismiss women as the weaker sex," he said mildly, "have never met the Countess of Leicester. "
25 " You hair looks verily like spun gold," he said, and then laughed. "I sound like every smitten lover since the world was green. Why must the language of love be so threadbare? There ought to be a way to tell you how I feel without evoking so many echoes, so many ghosts. "