Anne tried to dazzle him with her high spirits and her beauty. She kept her temper with him, though he was sour and dull. She danced, she gambled, she laughed, she skated, she was all joy, all light....
Any triumph she has is halved if I am not there to see it. And anything that goes wrong for me, any slight or humiliation, she is quick to perceive and she would even be quick to revenge—oh!—but insid...
As he catches my eye he beams at me, his dark face bright with affection. Anyone can see it who cares to look at him, he is hopelessly indiscreet. He puts his hand to his heart as if swearing fidelity...
As men have to fight, women have to wait and plan. This is your time for waiting and planning, and you must be constant and discreet.Honesty matters so much less.
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...
But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
But a good man wouldn't marry you for fortune, and perhaps you shouldn't choose such as one as that.
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 to tell you the truth, it is the same for me. I am as envious of her as she is of me. But I have seen her rise and rise.
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,...
Compared with the rest of us she was silver, while we were pewter, a common mixture of lead and tin.
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.
Either you have me or not at all. Either you love me or not at all. Either I am all yours or I am nobody’s. I will have no half-measures with you.
En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
He greeted Anne with a roar of joy, swept her up and kissed her. You would think he had never been Sir Loyal Heart to his Queen Katherine. You would think it had been his worst enemy who had died and...
He is a sodomite, and my sister is a whore, and perhaps a poisoner, and I am a whore. My uncle has been the falsest of friends, my father a time-server, my mother—God knows—some even say she had the k...
Her confidence is extraordinary, her impertinence unforgivable, her words terribly true.
I knew that I was smiling her smile, that she was a dark mirror to me.
True obedience can only happen when you secretly think you know better, and you choose to bow your head. Anything short of that is just agreement, and any ninny-in-waiting can agree.
¿Qué mejor manera de pasar los últimos días del mundo que enamorándose?
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