#roy

But the queen--too long she has suffered the pain of love, hour by hour nursing the wound with her lifeblood, consumed by the fire buried in her heart. [...] His looks, his words, they pierce her heart and cling-- no peace, no rest for her body, love will give her none. ↗

— Virgil

#greek #myth #mythology #the-aeneid #trojan

What if he can't save me? What if trying destroys us both? ↗

— Jessica Fortunato

#heart #love #save #love

Even in love we suffer, because in that very moment of love, Time, the insatiable Devourer, is destroying what we love...or ourselves. ↗

— Christopher Dutton

#love #time #love

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#eugenides #love #marriage #royalty #love

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. ↗

— Renata Adler

#destroys #document #ever #only #person

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#amiable #being #day #destroys #every

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#destroy #greatest #greatest privilege #her #house

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#defeated #destroyed #made #man

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#autonomy #bahrain #iraq #iraq-war #kurdish-people