Elizabeth Fremantle > Quotes

“There are events in life from which we learn our most profound lessons and sometimes those events are the ones of which we are most ashamed.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

“What are we if we are not words?”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

“I remember Maman once saying of the old Queen that power corrupts. I have thought much on it and it seems to me that it is not power that corrupts, but the fear of its loss," she pauses with a sigh. After all Mary and Elizabeth Tudor were just girls once, not so different from my sisters, or any other girls, for the that matter. It is fear that changed them.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason

“they have been apart for several weeks and will have to find one another again among the detritus of their separate experience.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason

“Katherine and the children have made paper boats and are floating them on the moat to see which one stays up the longest, contriving always that Edward’s should be the winner. He is learning from an early age that the world conspires magically to favor him. After all, he will be King one day and that is the way of things for kings.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

“I try to imagine a world without her, but it is like trying to think of the sea without salt. It is said that there is a sea in the Holy Land so full of salt that you can never drown in it. Maman is that sea to me; she has held me up, kept me buoyant, and I wonder if I can float alone.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason

“and he is missing his cap—a faux pas that would, were he not the Queen’s brother and so terrifying seething with anger, have barred his admittance from her presence.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

“I don't want her to be just something for men to leer at. I wanted to make her discomfort absolutely clear - her fear.' She stops for a moment, considering how to articulate her thoughts. ' But more than that I want to show their enjoyment ... of her fear.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Disobedient

“Nature’s brutality is sometimes surprising, but then man, who should know better and is guided by the Lord, is capable of worse.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason

“beautiful.” “You are the first,” adds Cat. “The first Queen to publish your own words in English. This makes history, Kit.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

“A magpie carks above, making an awful racket.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Watch the Lady

“It strikes her suddenly how it must have been for those men trapped in the bowels of that great ship, sinking down to their watery grave, and how they are all the same when it comes to the end of it. From the Vice-Admiral right down to the lad who scrubs the decks - when you go, you are brought to nothing, regardless of how high you have climbed.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit

“In the scheme of a life, it is not the duration of something but its impact that is important.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Sisters of Treason

“sumptuary”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit Free 1st Chapter

“Is it love? If so, love has no logic to it; it can appear out of animosity as a flower might miraculously push itself through a crack in brick.”
― Elizabeth Fremantle, Queen's Gambit