Jennifer Donnelly Quote
I could bear it [the shame] because I knew the truth, child, I say. There was one of us in that marriage who was old, fat, and smelly, and it wasn't me.The King was cruel to speak thus, Alice says, but in a low voice. As if Henry, dead these past ten years, might somehow hear her.He was, yes, I say. But I think mostly he was afraid.Alice is sceptical. Kings are afraid of nothing, she says.This King was afraid. I know it, for I'm the one who made him so. I made a mistake, child, a grave one.What was it?I made my face a mirror when it should've been a mask, and what the King saw there terrified him. He hated me for it, and never, ever forgave me.[Anna of Cleves]
Jennifer Donnelly
I could bear it [the shame] because I knew the truth, child, I say. There was one of us in that marriage who was old, fat, and smelly, and it wasn't me.The King was cruel to speak thus, Alice says, but in a low voice. As if Henry, dead these past ten years, might somehow hear her.He was, yes, I say. But I think mostly he was afraid.Alice is sceptical. Kings are afraid of nothing, she says.This King was afraid. I know it, for I'm the one who made him so. I made a mistake, child, a grave one.What was it?I made my face a mirror when it should've been a mask, and what the King saw there terrified him. He hated me for it, and never, ever forgave me.[Anna of Cleves]