She flashed me a quick black glance and then her dark eyelashes swept down on her cheeks. 'Not me,' she said 'I make my own plans. I don't risk being taken up and dropped again.''You told me to risk i...
She dropped to the stool before the little looking glass, rested her head on her hands and stared at herself. He’s in love with me, she said. He’s mad for me. I spend all my time bringing him close an...
She can be pious, she can be learned, she can be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married to a fool she will be that poor Mrs. Fool until the day he dies.
Semmi sem betegít meg jobban egy országot, mint amikor saját népe tagjai harcolnak egymás ellen.
My father was exceptionally tall and exceptionally handsome, and he only had to walk into a room to dominate the assembly of people. He revelled in the latest fashions and the most beautiful rich clot...
Meluzina tragédiája – bármilyen nyelv beszélje is el, bármilyen dallam énekelje is meg – az, hogy egy férfi mindig többet ígér, mint amennyit tenni képes egy nőért, akit nem tud megérteni.
Jane had gone to pray for the dead queen, Anne would dance on her grave. The
It’s a fool who is afraid of nothing, I say. And a brave man is one who knows fear and rides out and faces it.
I will go to war should there ever be a cause I think worth dying for--and not before.
I was taught to be queen by Margaret of Anjou, and perhaps I have taught you how to be queen in turn. This is fortune’s wheel indeed.’ With my forefinger I draw a circle in the air, the sign of fortun...
I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
I understand now why they break into convents, force women against their will, defy sanctuary to finish the killing chase. They arouse in themselves a wild vicious hunger more like animals than men. I...
I had meant my promise to George. I had said that I was, before anything else, a Boleyn and a Howard through and through; but now, sitting in th shadowy room, looking out over the gray slates of the c...
I am a woman who makes things happen, and I am not defeated yet. I am not defeated by a boy with a newly won crown, and no man will ever walk away from me certain that he won't walk back.
He’s a young man who has lived under the shadow of the sword from the moment when he fled England as a boy of fourteen to the day when he rode home to fight for his claim. Nobody knows better than he...
He has such kind eyes. Certainly he has eyes, but they do not have the power of emotion, only of sight.
For these are true boys and they draw dirt to them as if by magic.
But Anne, do you love him? I asked curiously.The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.
A single man’s imperfect conscience can never be superior to centuries of tradition.
The wedding should be between him, his bride, and God.