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1 " Even the strongest man needed a place where he could rest. Even the strongest woman needed the knowledge that she was not alone, that she had a strong shoulder to lean on. "
― Lina J. Potter , The Price of Happiness (A Medieval Tale, #5)
2 " Her own experience showed that those in power seldom sided with justice. "
3 " Do you think that cruelty is the privilege of kings?The old servant wasn't surprised. “I think it is the main trouble of all kings, My Lady. "
4 " Providence is only our foresight and our actions. We create our own destiny. "
5 " Sometimes I feel sorry for your Aldonai. Our gods divide responsibility between each other, but yours has to do it all alone. It must be hard for him. "
6 " Those who seek revenge are the first ones to die. "
7 " If a person is continuously told that she is a slug, for example, it will eventually push her to prove otherwise and roar with all her might. "
8 " Women could become friends if they have no self-interest. "
9 " God, how I hate death. It knew no time, no reason, no mercy, and took away the closest people to unknown faraway places. Whatever the Bible said about death, Lily didn’t believe that the dead departed to a better place. She wasn’t going to sit back and watch them depart to that better world. She wanted to fight. She viciously fought for every patient’s life. Sometimes hopelessly, but she continued the fight until the end. "
10 " There were many kinds of love. There were many couples who nourished their love with friendship. Hundreds of couples first married and only afterward, took notice of looks, learned how to trust each other and how to organize house chores. Such families ended up happier than the couples who were insanely in love. "
11 " Maybe it was love. No one could say if it was a creative or a destructive feeling. "
12 " She was a woman, not a workhorse. "
13 " All villains always blamed others for their own faults. "
14 " Killing was certainly easier than curing; it required want, not brains. "
15 " She could construct a compass in no time. She needed a needle, a cup of water, and a cork that floated on the surface. She would heat a needle from one end in order to demagnetize it, put it on the cork and place them inside the cup filled with water. The heated end of the needle would point south. "
16 " One should be worthy of the memory of one’s descendants, as well as one’s ancestors. One should always remain a good person. No matter where life takes you, no matter how hard and curious it gets, you need to remain a worthy person, even if it goes against your own wish. "
17 " Life does not always allow us to remain human. "
18 " often faded when it came to money, fame, or power. That was the case with Falion. "
19 " When one has a sick child, one believes in any god, be it the Heavenly Mare or the Moon Hare. "
20 " The eternal feminine desire to take everyone under her wing had no place in the Middle Ages. "
