“These women's long-standing ability to fade into the background has served them well. To follow them as a historian is often to see them slide out of view as soon as one tries to focus the lens. But allowing light into the darker corners of any history illuminates more than just one frame. To tell Henry's reign from the perspective of ladies-in-waiting is to see the familiar become unfamiliar. We were never supposed to know these stories like this. It's important that we do.”
Quote by Nicola Clark
Work
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
Browse quotes and source details for this work. more
Author
You May Also Like
“Peace is the quiet strength to remain silent before what no longer nourishes the soul.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“And yet, when everything is alien the alien becomes familiar.”
Source: The Humans
Source: Familiar
Source: Masters of Horror
“Only the familiar transformed by genius is truly great.”
Source: Doctor Zhivago
“How quickly the new and strange becomes old and familiar.”
Source: Shadows
“Lying didn't feel good; it just felt familiar.”
Source: Texas Outlaw
Source: Daily Drive 365
“Same seeks same; we search out the familiar.”
Source: Hausfrau