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“I want a job, Lady Carey. It isn't enough to be a councillor, I need an official place in the household."
"I'll tell her."
"I want a post in the Jewel House. Or the Exchequer."
She nods. "She made Tom Wyatt a poet. She made Harry Percy a madman. I'm sure she has some ideas about what to make you.”
― Wolf Hall
"I'll tell her."
"I want a post in the Jewel House. Or the Exchequer."
She nods. "She made Tom Wyatt a poet. She made Harry Percy a madman. I'm sure she has some ideas about what to make you.”
― Wolf Hall
“But there are good people whose safety depends on me speaking for them. I have promised to keep the king in one mind."
"It is easier to stand on your head than keep the king to one mind", Will observes, straight as a yeoman, but upside down. "If I were you, Majesty, I would stand on your head beside me.”
― The Taming of the Queen
"It is easier to stand on your head than keep the king to one mind", Will observes, straight as a yeoman, but upside down. "If I were you, Majesty, I would stand on your head beside me.”
― The Taming of the Queen
“Anders als vielfach behauptet, sind es auch nicht die ersten Lebensmonate, die so belastend sind. Oder das Kleinkindalter, wo du nur einmal nicht aufpassen musst, und schon turnen sie in der fünften Etage am offenen Fenster herum. Nicht mal die Grundschulzeit mit ihren diversen Freund- und Liebschaften ist wirklich schlimm. Das ändert sich, sobald sie in die Pubertät kommen. Die Samstage, an denen du nur beten kannst, dass sie wohlbehalten nach Hause zurückkehren, gehen an die Substanz. Einerseits weißt du, dass sie ihre Freiheit brauchen, andererseits fordert ihre Freiheit von dir ein Maß an Selbstverleugnung, das schmerzt. Dir ist klar, dass du sie nur deshalb nicht erreichst, weil sie (ohne dich) gerade die Zeit ihres Lebens haben - und nicht etwa, weil sie tot im Straßengraben liegen. Und dennoch lauert neben der Kränkung auch diese Angst ständig im Hintergrund: Eines Tages so einen Anruf zu erhalten…”
― Der Heimweg
― Der Heimweg
“They say you had a trade as a blacksmith; is that correct?"
Now she will say, shoe a horse?
"It was my father's trade."
"I begin to understand you." She nods. "The blacksmith makes his own tools.”
― Wolf Hall
Now she will say, shoe a horse?
"It was my father's trade."
"I begin to understand you." She nods. "The blacksmith makes his own tools.”
― Wolf Hall
“Two of them have asked in the most circumspect and quiet ways possible if there was a chance that you prefer women.”
I let out a sound that wasn’t quite a laugh. “Of course, because the only way I could possibly like men is if I bowed down at their feet?”
― The Heir
I let out a sound that wasn’t quite a laugh. “Of course, because the only way I could possibly like men is if I bowed down at their feet?”
― The Heir
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