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“While you are waiting to die, you have to live.”
― Kate Williams, The Storms of War

“Albert liked to play the stoic, and he embraced the opportunity to do over the negotiations about the marriage. He insisted that Uncle Leopold know what a great sacrifice he was making for the Saxe-Coburg family and Germany. As he gloomily lectured his uncle, 'troubles are inseparable from all human positions and…therefore if one must be subject to plagues and annoyances, it is better to be so for some great or worthy object than for trifles or miseries.'

Unfortunately for Albert, Leopold was deaf to self-pitying emotional blackmail and remained determined on his course.”
― Kate Williams, Becoming Queen

“As the weather improved, the bobms got worse. The newspapers said that the Kaiser was aiming to knock London down (although avoiding Buckingham Palace, so as not to hit his relations).”
― Kate Williams, The Storms of War

“I am more English than the English.- Rudolf de Vitt”
― Kate Williams, The Storms of War

“There were strange noises in the room, great bellowing sobs that did not sound like anything human. They bounced off the wals, echoing in her ears. Stop! she wanted to cry at the person who was making the noise. Then she realised that it was her.”
― Kate Williams, The Storms of War

“A shabby looking old man was walking their way. It must be a relative of one of the men, wandering in the wrong direction as they often did. Where were they going to put this one? He was wearing a pulled-down hat and he had a long beard. He was weaving towards her, his feet tripping unsteadily.Even though she could not see his face, there was something oddly familiar about him. She stared hard, trying to make it out. He put up his hand and waved. She stared again. "That's your father," said Tom.”
― Kate Williams, The Storms of War

“It would be wrong to kill oneself if one did not know exactly the nature of one's eyes.”
― Kate Williams, The Storms of War

“It is calculated that George III had an astonishing fifty-six grandchildren. He did not have one legitimate heir. The vision of Charlotte had sustained the people through the direst years of the regency. Without her, all hope seemed gone.

From "Becoming Queen Victoria”
― Kate Williams, Becoming Queen

“And yet, as Verena watched her turn back to the dusting, she had the curious sensation that positions had been reversed in the oddest fashion. The girl was the one telling her to go away, it was her house and Verena was the maid.”
― Kate Williams, The Storms of War

“She knew that doting on the dream made the pain worse, but she could not stop herself.”
― Kate Williams, The Storms of War

“I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great Imperial family to which we all belong, but I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me, as I now invite you to do. I know that your support will be unfailingly given. God help me to make good my vow and God bless all of you who are willing to share in it.   The”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“I care”
― Kate Williams, Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte

“Victoria liked music full of high passion and drama. “I am a terribly modern person,” she decided.”
― Kate Williams, Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch

“It was as grim a social scene as I’d ever encountered, and I missed everything I’d left behind at home. I wondered what my nail polish collection was doing right now.”
― Kate Williams, The Babysitters Coven

“Government worried that the parishes could not cope with such demands, and there was a widely held notion that the able-bodied were indolently living on handouts.”
― Kate Williams, Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch

“AMBITION IS NEVER content, even at the summit of greatness,” Napoleon declared.”
― Kate Williams, Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte

“As the Queen put it, ‘The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country under any circumstances whatsoever.”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“Because here’s the thing about trying: it’s tiring. Trying turns whatever you’re doing into labor.”
― Kate Williams, How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever’s Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things

“Overachieving was my humblebrag, and I told myself that I just liked being someone who got a lot done and had a full plate. Sure, I regularly found myself nearly immobilized by how much I had to do, but I always figured that was no big deal, a small price to pay for the validation I got for working so hard and doing so much. And if I kept my head down and stayed that way, then I didn’t have to admit the truth: I got a lot done, but just barely. And that full plate? It was cracked.”
― Kate Williams, How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever’s Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things

“When I am outside in the fresh air my ideas take a higher direction,” Napoleon said. “I cannot understand how some men can work successfully if they are always inside, beside the fireplace, without communication with the sky.”30”
― Kate Williams, Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte

“[…] but women who don’t conform still become the subjects of gossip and ridicule and bullying and exclusion.”
― Kate Williams, How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever’s Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things

“first requisite of a really good officer is to temper justice with mercy’. As”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“Unknowingly, Marie-Josèphe was covering herself with toxins, for the best rouge was made from vermilion, ground from cinnabar (mercury sulfide) or from ceruse, which was produced by dousing lead plates in vinegar.”
― Kate Williams, Ambition and Desire: The Dangerous Life of Josephine Bonaparte

“For me, one of the few things I know for sure is that I do not want to live the second half of my life in the same way I lived my first. I have spent so much time trying to make myself small. I tried to fit into the little space that was allocated for me.”
― Kate Williams, How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever’s Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things

“[…] and there is not a minute of the day that they are not maximizing in every way they can.”
― Kate Williams, How to Stop Trying: An Overachiever’s Guide to Self-Acceptance, Letting Go, and Other Impossible Things

“It was a matter of making the best job you can . . . and accepting your fate.”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

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― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“I am glad we’ve been bombed,’ said the Queen famously. ‘It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“Hitler had described the Queen Mother as ‘the most dangerous woman in Europe’, because of her effect on the national mood; her daughter was not too far behind.”
― Kate Williams, Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

“It starts by identifying your brand voice. Ask yourself these questions. What’s your primary message? What tone of voice do you use? What type of language do you use? How do you want to speak to your audience? How do you want clients to feel when they communicate with you?”
― Kate Williams, Becoming a Click Magnet: A Content Creation Guide for Small Businesses