63 Quotes by Margaret George

In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.

Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.

I loved him so, even his past was precious to me. I found myself kissing each mark, thinking, I would have had it never happen, I would wish it away, taking him further and further back to a time when he had known no disappointments, no battles, no wounds, as I erased each one. To make him again like Caesarion. Yet if we take the past away from those we love - even to protect them - do we not steal their very selves?

I will even not rant about treachery. I was brought up in a sea of treachery and deceit and betrayal. I swam in it like perch in the Nile. I am completely at home in it. I shall not drown.

Los fuertes buscarán fuerza, los débiles buscan excusas

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night’s sleep.

The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.

Things do not happen, we must make them happen.

What is one person’s diversion may be another’s supreme test.