Philippa Gregory - The Constant Princess (2005)

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He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

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They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

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Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

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True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.

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You have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.

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Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

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In Spain," indeed! He would have got no closer than the Indies if I had not showed him how to do it. Stupid puppy.

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