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"It is as I said. Your house's emblem should not be the white rose but the old sign of eternity."
"Eternity?" I repeat, hopeful that he is going to say something reassuring at this most dark time in our days.
"Yes, the snake which eats itself. The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying anotherm uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy."
I put my hands over my belly as if to shield the child from hearing such dark predictions. "Don't, Anthony. Don't say such things."
"They are true," he says grimly. "The House of York will fall whatever you or I do, for they will eat up themselves."
-The White Queen, by Phillipa Gregory, p. 245
"Eternity?" I repeat, hopeful that he is going to say something reassuring at this most dark time in our days.
"Yes, the snake which eats itself. The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying anotherm uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy."
I put my hands over my belly as if to shield the child from hearing such dark predictions. "Don't, Anthony. Don't say such things."
"They are true," he says grimly. "The House of York will fall whatever you or I do, for they will eat up themselves."
-The White Queen, by Phillipa Gregory, p. 245