Feel that deep joy of a writer seeing her work in print for the first time. The absorbing private work has become public, it has stepped out into the world. It will be judged and I am full of confiden...
In the water is a woman of such beauty that her skin is paler than the white marble and her hair is darker than the night skies. He falls in love with her at once, and she with him, and he takes her t...
Keep her away from his brother. They say he had her locked in her room. But true love prevailed, and the young duke and the young widowed princess fell into each other’s arms. At all events, this vers...
Man will always promise more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.
Quando se reconhece que o amado é tudo menos perfeito, tal constitui um verdadeiro teste ao amor.
She taught me that there is nothing in the world more powerful than a woman who knows what she wants and walks a straight road towards it. It doesn’t matter if you call it magic or determination. It d...
The wedding should be between him, his bride, and God.
We stood for a moment, handclasped in the warm sunshine, and I thought, like a lovesick girl: This is heaven.
Who could deny the Pope when he held the keys of heaven in his hand?
A haja szőke, a szeme szürke, napbarnított, nyílt, mosolygó arca csupa báj és könnyed elegancia. Ilyen királyt eddig még nem láttunk Angliában: ezt a férfit első látásra megszeretik az emberek. Tekint...
A man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, at the same time, know that they are utterly hopelessly different.
Affection is not important to you, nor to me. You want power Margaret, power and wealth; and so do I. Nothing matters as much as this to either of us, and we will sacrifice anything for it.
Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.
Ah, my dear. Sometimes God takes the most precious children to his own.
All that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
Although I am cursed by dreams, I still cannot stop myself sleeping. I drop into darkness every night and dream that Richard has come to me, laughing. He tells me that the battle went his way and we a...
And swore that whatever the obstacles before me, I should be Queen of England.
And those people like my grandmother, who are so free with their insults and their slaps, who say that it is a tremendous honor and a fine step up for a ninny like me, might well consider that a fool...
Anne gave a little giggle. 'Oh what a tragedy Queen! You can smile while your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful...
Anne shook her head. I’ll not be safe until she is dead, she said. Just as she will not be safe until I am dead. It is not just a matter now of a man or a throne, it is as if I am her shadow and she i...
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