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“In my end is my beginning”
― Mary Queen Of Scots

“Wherever I may be
In the woods or in the fields
Whatever the hours of day
Be it dawn or the eventide
My heart still feels it yet
The eternal regret...
As I sink into my sleep
The absent one is near
Alone upon my couch
I feel his beloved touch
In work or in repose
We are foreverver close...”
― Mary Queen Of Scots

“No more tears now; I will think upon revenge.”
― Mary Stuart

“En ma fin est ma commencement.”
― Mary Queen of Scots

“Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company”
― Mary Queen Of Scots

“Wherever I may be
In the woods or in the fields
Whatever the hours of day
Be it dawn or the eventide
My heart still feel it yet
The eternal regret...
As I sink into my sleep
The absent one is near
Alone upon my couch
I feel his beloved touch
In work or in repose
We are foreverver close...”
― Mary Queen of Scots Translated by Antonia Fraser

“Those memories are a part of me, but I am stronger than they are. My life is once again the sum of my choices, not someone else's crimes. And I choose to help my friends.”
― Mary Stuart

“We are king and queen, chained together as surely as prisoners in a dungeon. And if we are not to suffer as prisoners do, we must make peace with each other.”
― Mary Stuart

“During my fourth counseling session my counselor encouraged me to challenge just one small act of tyranny he placed upon the family. He knew that if I expressed a disagreement to a bully concerning a mundane issue then he would be willing to discuss the matter. A bully might balk initially but he would soon back down and resolve the issue. An abuser, by contrast, would rage, threaten injury or divorce, and intimidate his target back into total compliance.”
― Mary Stuart, Can I Stay or Must I Leave? ending the grip of domestic abuse

“It is difficult to discern the difference between a bully and an abuser when he leaves no bruises or broken bones. The distinction is even more blurred when your church and community group unwittingly aid the abuser in his craft by telling you that you are making too big of a deal out of his insensitive personality. Submit more, pray more, and cook him a nice dinner and he will change his ways. The target is, in short, held responsible for her abuser’s actions. I”
― Mary Stuart, Can I Stay or Must I Leave? ending the grip of domestic abuse

“No one should bully you into staying against your better judgment. Yes, marriage is a precious covenant worthy of fighting for. You, however, did not break the marriage. He broke the marriage and it is ultimately up to him to fix the marriage.”
― Mary Stuart, Can I Stay or Must I Leave? ending the grip of domestic abuse

“I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe.”
― Queen of Scotland: Mary Stuart

“It often takes many years for a target to reach the tipping point that she fears staying with her abuser more than she fears leaving him.”
― Mary Stuart, Can I Stay or Must I Leave? ending the grip of domestic abuse

“Some forms of abuse are not physical but they are emotional and spiritual in nature. These abuses, unlike physical assault, cannot be quantified or photographed. Emotional and spiritual abuses include attacking a target’s sense of self, public humiliation, denial, blame, withholding of words and affection, threats, and a raging temper among a host of other strategies. The effects of emotional and spiritual abuse are qualitative; they shatter the soul and break the hearts of targets but they do not place the target in immediate danger of losing her life.”
― Mary Stuart, Can I Stay or Must I Leave? ending the grip of domestic abuse

“Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.”
― Mary Queen of Scots

“They say that marriage is like a promise, and it is that. But the best ones are based on certainty. An inexplicable faith in someone else.”
― Mary Stuart

“In my end is my beginning.”
― Mary Stuart