This marriage had resulted from impulse: he had seen her on a high-flying swing at Tsarkoe Selo and her skirt, flared by the breeze, had exposed her ankles; he had proposed the following day.
He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.
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Megan Whalen Turner
A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom.
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J.r.r. Tolkien
She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.
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Grace Willows
Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky." Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride
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Grace Willows
You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.
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Grace Willows
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