“How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby's first breath, a mother's fading heartbeat.” FirstsEarthYoungMotherBabyHealthyBreathsStealingFragileFleetingHeartbeatFadingFickle Author:Sharon Kay Penman
“We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?” IfsChildrenLittlesEarthCertainSufferingHurtForgetSorrow Book:The Sunne In Splendour: A Novel of Richard III Source: The Sunne In Splendour: A Novel of Richard III