Susan Fraser King > Quotes

“When I need it, I can call bitterness around me like mail armor, every thought a knot of steel, shielding the tenderness I have learned to hide as a daughter, mother, wife, and queen among warriors.”
― Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth

“Sorrow and life go hand in hand.”
― Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth

“You are the Queen. See it done.”
― Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth

“A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends to matters outside."

A queen tends to both, I wanted to say, but did not. She would not understand.”
― Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth

“Grief is sometimes like a sharp-toothed demon that gets hold of our hearts. But its grip weakens with time, and one day you will be free of it.” “Then I will wait,” I said, and as Osgar nodded, I thought of the tongue-lashing I would have had from Anselm for the same.”
― Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth

“Each of them had acted from loyalty and belief in rightfulness, and each saw the truth differently, like the many facets of a jewel.”
― Susan Fraser King, Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland

“I am not what you think I am but may I be it because you think it.”
― Susan Fraser King, Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland

“triskele,”
― Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth

“She searches for peace, that one, yet never finds it, though it flows all around her to others. She cares so much, but must take care of herself as well.”
― Susan Fraser King, Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland

“The triskele, whose three swirls represent the joyful spinning of the spirit as it creates art, craft, and life, has protective power.”
― Susan Fraser King, Lady Macbeth