#elizabeth

He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#north-and-south #thornton #love

His gaze held hers, and his voice was tender and rough. “Love me, Elizabeth.” Elizabeth felt a tremor run through her entire body, but she looked at him without flinching. “I do. ↗

— Judith McNaught

#elizabeth #ian #judith-mcnaught #love

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew it had begun. ↗

— Amanda Grange

#love

My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#love #monarch #on-monsieur-s-departure #poem #queen

... Of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous. ↗

— Seth Grahame-Smith

#love

In memory, everything seems to happen to music. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#music

Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#north-and-south #infidelity

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#claims #diligently #elizabeth #enough #explaining

Elizabeth's back at the red cross, and I'm walking the dog. ↗

— Bob Dole

#cross #dog #elizabeth #i #red

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. ↗

— Timothy West

#classes #classical #elizabethan #how #live