"Well, what shall we hang? The holly or each other?"

[kittydesade]

Loveday Brooke from the stories of C L Perkis.


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Today.. could have been more fruitful, but I went to the library and got out a few good books. A couple on New Orleans for my nanonovel. Renewed some on Paris and the Opium Wars, got one on the history of warfare and a novel called The Crimson Petal and the White that I remember seemed good a while back. And was, I think, about a boy-courtesan but I could be wrong on that point.

I also rented The Lion In Winter, which always amuses the hell out of me. I love the dialogue, the byplay, and I absolutely adore Katherine Hepburn. I wanted to be Eleanor of Aquitaine when I was little. Still do, hell. She's beautiful and powerful and witty and clever and intelligent and wise and really really badass. "I married out of love a woman out of legend." I wouldn't mind being a woman out of legend. Eleanor of Aquitaine, in whatever incarnation I've seen her and read her, rules my world.


"Ah, Christmas. Warm and rosy time. The hot wine steams, the yule log roars, and we're the fat that's in the fire."
-- Geoffrey

"How was your crossing? Did the Channel part for you?"
"It went flat when I told it to. I didn't think to ask for more."
-- Henry and Eleanor

"If I'd born sons for him instead of all those little girls, I'd still be stuck with being Queen of France, and we should not have known each other. Such, my angels, is the role of sex in history."
-- Eleanor

"I am a king, I am no man's boy."
"A king? Because you put your ass on purple cushions?"
-- Phillip and Henry

"Henry's bed is Henry's province, he can people it with sheep for all I care... which on occasion he has done."
-- Eleanor


Okay, that's more than enough, I'll go through the movie and mark down all the amusing quotes I like later in the week. :)

I made my writing quota last night, which makes me happy. Now I just have to do it again tonight. Oh dear.