For these are true boys and they draw dirt to them as if by magic.
Getting a woman into power is not the point—it’s getting a good woman into power who thinks and cares about what she does.
God does not make the way smooth for those He loves. He sends hardships to try them. Those that God loves the best are those who suffer the worst.
God has not given this false marriage his blessing. Every year he has turned his face from me and I should have seen it earlier. The queen is not my wife, she is Arthur’s wife.
Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to sp...
Good Evening , Sir John. I hope that you will accept a little gift from me.'I should be honored, Your Majesty.'I want to give you a little carved stool from my privy chambers. A pretty little piece fr...
Gwyneth looks at me. What does it say? she asks.Nothing, I say. The lie comes to my mouth so swiftly that it must have been put there by God to help me, and therefore it does not count as a lie at all...
Half the court thinks I’m the most beautiful woman in the world. All of them know that I am the wittiest and the most stylish. The king cannot take his eyes off me. Sir Thomas Wyatt has gone to France...
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He bares his yellow teeth in a smile at me. 'Everyone is always our enemy,' he says. 'But right now, we are winning.
He had that York gift, didn’t he? he presses me. Of making people love him? Like your father King Edward did? Like you have? It’s a blessing, there’s no real sense to it. It’s just that some men have...
He has lost his print upon the earth; he has lost any fire.
He has such kind eyes. Certainly he has eyes, but they do not have the power of emotion, only of sight.
He is a very cautious man, and he believes wholeheartedly in nothing.
He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
He is smiling proudly, his face flushed, thinking that she is enjoying the sight of her son, her adored only son, in his wedding bed, a beautiful bride, a true princess, beside him. Only I understand...
He must desire the scent of the smoke of their sacrifice.
He was such a happy boy, and happiness is not memorable.
Her beauty completely erased by jealousy.
Her sadness had given her a serenity which had not been there before. It was as if she had learned a hard lesson: that chances in life would not fall into her lap like ripe cherries.
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