[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

Time owed an alliance to the undying.

At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder.At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

And maybe it was more than that.Maybe it was actually an unspoken instant agreement between the four women on the balcony: No woman should pay for the accidental death of this particular man. Maybe it was an involuntary, atavistic response to thousands of years of violence against women. Maybe it was for every rape, every brutal backhanded slap, every other Perry that had come before this one.

Oh, come now, you two,” Lady Manston said, “surely it can be no surprise that I have long hoped for an alliance between the Rokesbys and Bridgertons.” “Alliance?” Billie echoed, and all George could think was that it was a terrible, clinical word, one that could never encompass all that he had come to feel for her.

Today's opponents can be your allies tomorrow. And today's allies can be tomorrow's opponents.

Few teams sometimes fails miserably because team members wish to work in the team but they want to be recognized individualy.

Was mutual need enough to risk trusting a calculated enemy in hopes of destroying a more powerful one?

Commitment is a promise to a cause. Being non-committal is a promise to catastrophe.