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.
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 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.
But a good man wouldn't marry you for fortune, and perhaps you shouldn't choose such as one as that.
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...
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.
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.
It doesn’t matter if you call it magic or determination. It doesn’t matter if you make a spell or a plot. You have to make up your mind what you want, and have the courage to set your heart on it. You...
I will own a cat and not fear being called a witch; I will dance and not fear being named a whore. I shall ride my horse and go where I please. I shall soar like a gyrfalcon. I shall live my own life...
Her great bed had been moved in, and the walls hung with thick tapestries to exclude any noise or sunshine or fresh air. They had put rushes down on the floor with rosemary for scent, and lavender for...
Conviviencia—living alongside each other in harmony, whatever their beliefs. For the enemy is not another person who believes in a god. The enemy is ignorance, and people who believe in nothing and ca...
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...
All this is always for nothing, he says. Don’t you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided.
I will try to remember this day, and you looking like a child, a little lost among all these clothes. I will try to remember that you were innocent of any plotting; that today at least, you were more...
Good God, what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard. It is truly amazing.
But seeing those words that were first written, and scratched out, and rewritten again in print and bound into a book, I know that I love the process of writing and publishing. To take a thought and w...