Status Updates From La scuola degli specchi

✨If all mankind lived in mutual love, this world would much resemble that above.

✨DEATH, MARIE-LOUISE HAD HEARD, arrIved uninvited and spared no one, levelling all that had been uneven.

✨What pains Marie-Louise still is the time she wasted chasing phantoms, refusing to see what was staring her in the tace.
That she had found a home.
That the past didn't have to stain her.

Ingratitude calls forth reproaches as gratitude brings renewed kindnesses.

Is restraint a woman's duty alone? Is obedience? Is turning a blind eye?
These are precisely the thoughts Queen Marie shouldn't be having now when she awaits her husband's visit.

This is her wisdom: sin reigns in the kingdom. Husbands surprise unfaithful wives in bed with other men. Mothers sell their daughters to the highest bidder. Servants cheat their masters, sell their furs and clothes and pocket the money. Or leave back doors unlocked for thieves.

"Permit me, Sire, to tell you why women would never make good soldiers.»

Permission granted, Lebel clears his throat.
"Because every one of them would want to serve under a colonel."
What satisfaction, knowing how to lift his master's spirits. What pride. *rolled my eyes *

She knows that the world is not run by those who trust but by those who foresee trouble well before it is conceived.

His sister likes to say that reading at all hours will ruin your sight, and alas she is right.