I spent days and nights staring at the blank page, searching the deepest corners of my mind: who have I been, what have I seen, what did I learn? I thought about all the nights I've spent outside, all the times I laid down to cry and how I took a deep breath every morning and decided to simply go on. Because what else is there to do? Decide that this is it? I quit, I'm done? Oh if I could find words to justify those feelings I've carried. I could write the thickest of books with explosions of emotions from a young girl's lost heart. I could make you see, make you hear, make you feel, at least a tiny fragment of what's out there.
Charlotte Eriksson
Related I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. MARIE ANTOINETTE I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. KING JAMES I I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. CHARLES V I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister. KATE MIDDLETON It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;... MARIE ANTOINETTE I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. AUGUSTUS A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. FREDERICK THE GREAT Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road... HUSSEIN OF JORDAN It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. QUEEN CHRISTINA There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. PRINCE CHARLES We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes. QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy? PRINCESS DIANA The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult period... PRINCESS DIANA People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is bett... PRINCESS DIANA I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa... PRINCESS DIANA
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May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You can kid the world, but not your sister. CHARLOTTE GRAY Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice. CHARLOTTE BRONTë The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. CHARLOTTE BRONTë If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I would always rather be happy than dignified. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband. CHARLOTTE BRONTE As to the sufferers, whose sole inheritance was labour, and who had lost that inheritance - who coul... CHARLOTTE BRONTE America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got. CHARLOTTE BUNCH If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather tha... CHARLOTTE BRONTE It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and t... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not... CHARLOTTE WHITTON But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. We are, and mus... CHARLOTTE BRONTE In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whos... CHARLOTTE OBSERVER I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automa... CHARLOTTE BRONTE An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the ma... CHARLOTTE BINGHAM Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to ... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be... CHARLOTTE BRONTE I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, CHARLOTTE BARNARD Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears t... CHARLOTTE BRONTE You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse... CHARLOTTE BRONTE One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to con... CHARLOTTE BRONTE There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping CHARLOTTE BRONTE Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Look twice before you leap. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. CHARLOTTE BRONTE Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w... CHARLOTTE BRONTE If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me. CHARLOTTE BRONTë There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your prese... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. 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