When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.
What a test of love it is, when the beloved is less than perfect.
We would never meet. I would never have to see them. They were a life I had left behind. I could cut myself in two and say: That was the old life, the old life with her; it is gone now, all gone.
This is the greatest
This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.
Svaki dan se budim i znam da ću je vidjeti, a ipak joj ništa ne mogu šapnuti na uho niti joj dodirnuti ruku. Ne mogu je privoljeti da preskoči svoje sastanke, ne mogu je ukrasti iz društva drugih. Sva...
Some women attract desire. Others do not.
She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life.
My advice to you, as you go to your husband, is never to trust him and never love him more than he loves you.
Mas, entre nós, nunca houve tempo para as palavras de amor; a maior parte do nosso tempo foi gasta em despedidas.
Margaret...you must know that you could never change your own life. You are a girl: girls have no choice. You could never even choose your own husband: you are of the royal family. A husband would alw...
Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.
Lady
It is for your daughter, she said. For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine. There
I woke at dawn every morning to his touch, the delight of his warmth and the heady smell of his skin. I had never before lain with a man who had loved me completely, for myself, and it was a dizzy exp...
I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.
I think nobody in the whole world knows what it is to be in love, to be so beloved.
I have loved you for years, she cried after him. I gave my womanhood to you. Tell me, in what way have I offended you? What have I ever done which was displeasing?
I feel I owe it to the women that their stories should be told fully by us—the descendants and heirs to their very real struggles and genuine victories. And so I hope very much that you will find this...
I am sure your piety does you great credit, Margaret. But certainly, if God is speaking to the king, then He has not chosen the best time for this conversation.