Marian Drew Quotes

A fighting man will die without something to fight for." "And a woman?" I asked her. She drew in a slow breath. "Everyone needs something - someone - to fight for, Marian.

She seemed to search for the right words to say and her body grew more rigid. "If I tell you the truth, you'll think I'm insane. " "Test me." She drew is a deep breath. "I'm from another time and place." Marian from Come Back to Me

The couple went into the vestry and came out again, Lilibet radiant with happiness. She passed back down the aisle and then, reaching the place where her parents stood, paused and swept them a deep, beautiful curtsey. As the memory of that very first curtsey to the king on his accession day came back with force, Marian fumbled for her handkerchief. Outside it was all wild pealing of the bells and the cheers of the crowds clustering about the Abbey. Margaret emerged with Peter Townsend beside her, dashing in his RAF uniform. She was looking up at him in a manner that could be interpreted only in one way. The queen was coming out now. She paused beside Marion and smiled. "I think she is happy, Crawfie." The glassy blue eyes were wistful. "I know how you feel, ma'am," Marion said, from her full heart. "I feel as if I've lost a daughter as well." The queen drew back. There was a beat or two before she said, with her usual serene smile, "I'm sure you do, Crawfie. But they grow up and leave us, and we must make the best of it." With that, she passed on to her carriage. Lilibet and Philip's had already set off, glittering in the sunlight, borne by cheers, into their glorious future.

Let’s take my truck,” he suggested. “Mine’s better. Yours screams male testosterone and we wouldn’t want the neighbors to get the wrong idea and say something to her husband.” He stopped in the parking lot to stare at me. “Well, that’s a sexist thing to say.” “What?” “That only men drive trucks like mine.” “It’s usually men who need to overcompensate with big trucks to make up for their small—” “I can assure you that’s not the case.” I wanted to give him a snarky reply, but my eyes instinctively dropped to the bulge in his pants and I immediately drew them back up.

In their fragmentary and miscellaneous way, the Hawthornden manuscripts provide information about the re-shaping of a British Marian myth after 1603, a complex process that involved re-negotiating older national narratives and that drew together the factious material written in the 1580s with more sombre recollections fit for the commemoration of a national figure. In a narrower sense, Fowler's papers offer material evidence of the nature and extent of circulation of Marian 'literary curiousities' among the London Jacobean elites in the first decade of Stuart rule; the loosely defined circles within which this material can be detected include people from different backgrounds, nationalities and social extractions, as a testament to the permeability of both Marian material and early seventeenth-century literary networks. By the end of the first decade of James's English reign, when much of Fowler's material was arguably collected, Mary's problematic memory had been finally tamed and the Queen of Scots had become a figure of misfortune rather than dissent.