She wanted nothing more than to crawl back in bed and pull the drapes. I must be brave, like Robb, she told herself, as she took her lord husband stiffly by the arm.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

Mary Oliver, from The Journey

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. Lord of the Rings THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING 2001 | Dir. Peter Jackson

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Daphne Du Maurier, May 13, 1907 – April 19, 1989.

Instead, I asked the wrong question - four wrong questions, more or less. This is the account of the first.