Isabella Quotes

“He will see that I am no coward. If he will call for rain then I will give him a tempest.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“If today brings no hope we should plan for tomorrow.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“We make such plans for our lives, she thinks, and this is the way they turn out, nothing like what we imagine.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“An enemy never seems quite as formidable when he is whimpering in chains, so that you forget how he looked sneering at you when you were miserable”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“They remove to York, that cold and godless place, where not even the devil could get warm.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“He couldn’t organize a fuck in a barrel full of whores.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“This love your minstrels sing of, must it always be a knight and a lady? Who made this law? Was it God? Then God is a trickster, for there is no one else will do for me.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“A woman, though she is a queen, is meant by God to be instructed by her husband.” It is the bishop of Orange who says this, and she smiles and imagines cleaving him with a sword, right through his skull to his breastbone,”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“here in a place as far from God as one can go and still freeze.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France

“You will love this man. Do you understand? You will love him, serve him, and obey him in all things. This is your duty to me and to France. Am I clear?’
Isabella is twelve years old and astoundingly pretty, a woman in a girl’s body. She keeps her eyes on the floor and nods her head.”
― Colin Falconer, Isabella: Braveheart of France