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...
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...
Good God, what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard. It is truly amazing.
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.
Funny sky,' he said, squinting up at the thick-bellied white clouds and the sun shining so hot on them but not breaking through.'It feels as if there should be a storm,' I said 'but it was like this a...
For the first time it strikes me that it must be hard to spend your life in exile and finally win your kingdom by a thread, by the action of a turncoat in battle, and to know that most of the country...
For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would alw...
First you have to know the emptiness of your womb, of your arms, of your heart. That can hurt. You have to have the courage to look at yourself and know the loss that you feel. Then you have to change...
Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.
Every day I dance attendance on one sister or the other and play pander to the king. Every day I deny my own desire, my own passion, I deny my own soul! I make my life a secret to myself. Now you come...
Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.
Do you not think that God will protect us?No, he said flatly. My experience is that He rarely attends to the obvious.
Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the word. And now that I am a woman grown, I know that I love you and I want this son of yours, and our ch...
Compared with the rest of us she was silver, while we were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin.
Come back to me. He laughs. It is not forced; it is the laugh of a happy man, confident in his luck and his abilities. I will, he says. Trust me. You have married a man who is going to die in his bed,...
But from morning to night Anne was with the king, as close to his side as a newly wed bride, as a chief counselor, as a best friend. She would return to our chamber only to change her gown or lie on t...
But a good man wouldn't marry you for fortune, and perhaps you shouldn't choose such as one as that.
But I warn you that a woman who seeks great power and wealth has to pay a great price, Perhaps you will be a great woman like Melusina, or Yolande, or like me; but you will be like all women; uneasy i...
Because they will want me in Edinburgh to make sure that the Scottish king holds to the new alliance with England. They’ll want me to hold him in friendship with Henry. They’ll think that if I am quee...
As soon as they are gone and the door closed behind them, we fall into a frenzy about my dress. Dark green, my mother says. It has to be dark green. It is our only safe color. Dark blue is the royal c...