He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
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Don't be afraid of the future, little Julia. Take your present life and live it.
Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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...
All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
Would kill them at once, and blame it on Richard. If he found my sons alive, he
Bowl,
You are a son of Melusina, I say, trying to smile. You sound like her when she had to be free to go into the water.
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’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...
Walk through your sorrow, my daughter, it hardly matters as long as you walk to where you want to be.
This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.
This is George, my beloved George. D'you think I want to go to my grave knowing that at the moment of his trial he looked around and saw no one lift a finger for him? If it is the death of me, I shall...
These were simple people: when someone told them that they had nothing to fear they knew that they were in trouble.
The scene had been a nightmare, one of those insane nightmares where the most normal objects become infinitely menacing.
She did not want him to know that she was not his beloved little sister any more but a woman who had learned to throw everything, even her mortal soul, into the battle to become queen.
People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown. We have to carry it as lightly as we can.
Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.
Nothing would be the same for any woman in this country again. From this time onward no wife, however obedient, however loving, would be safe. For everyone would know that if a wife such as Queen Kath...