Wilja Wiedenhöft

“He will come to trust you, perhaps,” she says. “If you have years together. You may grow to be a loving husband and wife, if you have long enough. And if I never tell you anything, then there will never be a moment where you have to lie to him. Or worse—never a moment when you have to choose where your loyalties lie. I wouldn’t want you to have to choose between your father’s family and your husband’s. I wouldn’t want you to have to choose between the claims of your little son and another.” I”
― Philippa Gregory, The White Princess

“Zwei Augen hat man nur und mit hundert soll man sehen”
― Theodor Storm, Der Schimmelreiter und andere Novellen (103 Titel in einem Band): Pole Poppenspäler + Sylter Novelle + Im Brauerhause + Marthe und ihre Uhr + Im Sonnenschein…

“Moon glaubte weder an Gott noch an eine überirdische Macht oder an Gebete. Sie bewirkten nichts, wie sie schon als Kind erfahren hatte. Betrachtete sie ihr Leben, war die Existenz dunkler Mächte viel wahrscheinlicher als die eines gütigen Gottes.”
― Lilli Beck, Glück und Glas

“Life is a risk, who knows this better than me? Who knows more surely that babies die easily, that children fall ill from the least cause, that royal blood is fatally weak, that death walks behind my family like a faithful black hound?”
― Philippa Gregory, The King's Curse