Bea Goode-Parson

“It is a month today
Since my lover went away.
My heart remains gloomy and silent;
It is a month today.
"Farewell," he said, "I am leaving."
Since then he speaks to me no more.
It is a month today.”
― Christine de Pisan

“I saw him born," [Edgar] said between sobs. "It was like a miracle."
"I know," said Agatha.
"And then I saw him murdered.”
― Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning

“Money and currency are very strange things.
They keep on going up and down and no one knows why;
If you want to win, you lose, however hard you try.”
― Gilles li Muisis

“What, my studious daughter, have you already put away the tool of your intelligence and consigned it to silence? Have you let your ink dry and abandoned your pen and the labour of your right hand, when you used to take such pleasure in it? Do you now intend to take seriously the propaganda of Laziness, who, if you are inclined to believe it, will sing sweetly to you: "You have done enough. It is time that you had a rest."

'But don't you know that, although after great labour the wise person rests [their] mind, now is not the time to abandon good work? It is not like you to be among those who give up in mid-course. The knight who leaves the field of battle before the moment of victory is deeply shamed, for the laurel wreath belongs to those who persevere. Now stand up and make your hand ready; get up out of the ashes of indolence!”
― Christine de Pizan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies