And it was Anne who was before the table like a prisoner before the bar. She did not stand with her head bowed as I always did. Anne stood with her head high, one dark eyebrow slightly raised, and she...
And it seems to me that there is nothing more likely to cure a woman of lust than marriage. Now I understand what the saint meant when he said that it was better to marry than to burn. In my experienc...
A steady love, a faithful love, a wife’s love is the best.
A single man’s imperfect conscience can never be superior to centuries of tradition.
Would kill them at once, and blame it on Richard. If he found my sons alive, he
Was in correspondence with their religious
The bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
Of the agreed facts: the official bedding; the young couple co-habiting at Ludlow; their youth and health; and the absence of any concern about the consummation of their marriage; convincingly indicat...
You are my heart. Even if you are a broken heart
When you are still and thoughtful you are as lovely as the statues they are carving in Italy.
What’s her secret, d’you think? I think they’re very alike. My distaste for the two of them crept into my tone. They both know exactly what they want and they both stop at nothing to get it. They both...
What he does not know is that his greatest friend of all, the man he loves as a brother, has become indeed like a brother: as false to him as any envious rivalrous brother of York.
We were a quartet of idiots trying to look suave.
We the daughters of Melusina,' she corrects me. 'Your grandmother was a daughter of the water goddess of the royal house of Burgundy and she never forgot that she was both royal and magical. When I wa...
Twelfth night, of all the nights of the year, is one where shapes shift and identities flicker.
To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.
They dressed her and she laced tightly so that her breasts were pressed into two tantalizing curves of creamy flesh at the neck of her gown. Her glossy black hair was exposed by her pushed-back hood,...
These were simple people: when someone told them that they had nothing to fear they knew that they were in trouble.
The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with in...
The stewards, and then the bailiffs, and then finally the lawyers meet. They wrangle, they agree, and we are to be married in June. It is no little decision for me - for the first time in my life I ha...