The Strangled Queen (The Accursed Kings, Book 2)

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Hate creates links as strong as those of love, and when the enemy one has fought for a long time disappears, one feels an emptiness at the heart, the emptiness created by the end of every great passion.

Several Mohammedan countries in North Africa and the Middle East are precisely in a period of fourteenth-century development and can show us, in a number of respects, a reflection of what the European medieval world was like.

Look at her throat, Nephew, what an exquisitely feminine throat!’

since in people who are well endowed to conduct business the sense of personal interest never obliterates sentiment.

You always meet the same people travelling because, of course, it’s always the same people who travel.

This was merely a minor compliment, for to tell a Neapolitan woman, whether she be princess or merely serving-maid in a hotel, that one will fall gravely ill at not seeing her again is but the minimum obligation of courtesy.

There is but one thing one never finds again; that is youth, and time to travel about the world.’