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"The only things that glowed were the parts that separated from Chip and Alex—hands, feet, maybe an occasional elbow."
"I don’t want to listen! I don’t care about history!"
"We’re done here, too. Back to the courtyard?"
"There’s nothing to see in this corner. Nothing."
"But our father’s advisers were really mad."
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"It was just, like, five hairs," Jonah scoffed. "It won’t disqualify you from running for Miss America someday."
"Oh, yeah. Blindman’s bluff with torches is my favorite game," Alex said sarcastically.
"We’ve got to take charge. Be proactive, not reactive. Make a plan." - Alex
"This is what people wear in heaven," Katherine said. "Don’t you … I mean, do you not recognize your own nephews?"
"I’ll have you know I—," Katherine began indignantly. She was standing on her tiptoes, like she was ready to face off with the old monk, nose to nose, glaring eye to glaring eye.
"Maybe it’s just because I’ve already seen murderers, I’ve already almost been burned to death—and that’s without going out into the rest of the fifteenth century. …" - Katherine
"Being alive or dead don’t matter if he’s not going to be king, neither way." - Monk
"My sons! Oh, my sons! I thought you were lost to me forever!" - The Queen
"You do not deserve to be king," Chip hissed directly into his uncle’s ear.
"I missed you, Mother. I missed how you always know the right thing to do."
"It's like watching Holocaust movies, where you know everyone's going to die."
"This is driving me crazy, not knowing what's going to happen."
"When have you ever known what's going to happen in the future?"
"Time is what keeps everything from happening at once."
"If everything goes the way we hope, it's two years."
"If you didn't want us to save Chip and Alex, you should have told us."
"I will not let another boy die because of who his father is."
"You are the angels who appeared to me at Westminster."
"If you are sincere, there is a way for your sins to be forgiven."
"I had to take the throne, for the good of England."
"That is no more than I deserved, but much worse than my son deserved."
"I swear to you, if my nephew Edward could be resurrected, I would put the crown upon his head myself."
"My nephew. I have sinned before God and man, but I have been granted a second chance."
"I must defend the crown I would give you," he said. "This will be my last act as king. …"
"He killed Henry’s standard-bearer?" Chip murmured in amazement. "He’s that close to killing Henry?"
"Sometimes you have to fight for what you want," Chip said, his expression set. "Sometimes the fight is all you get."
"You’re just like your father," he snarled. "Back home. Remember? Remember how selfish he was, how he never thought about anyone but himself?"
"My crown!" Chip cried. "My throne! My glory!"
"Time needed Richard to be a villain," JB explained carefully.
"The year 1483 was something of a turning point in history. Before that, killing for political gain was … expected. Ordinary. But the way the princes disappeared from the Tower, the way everyone thought they knew what had happened, the way people were so horrified at Richard killing kids … that changed history."
"It amazes me how people of your time set up such a false dichotomy between science and religion."