For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment and something darker, the old sense between sisters that there is only really room in the world for...
I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
Much commented on. I have three new hoods to match, which
When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
This is the greatest
Personally, I don't think that having a water goddess for an ancestress is a guarantee of freedom against seasickness, nor come to that, shipwreck.
If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.
If He were not God, then one would think it very badly planned.
You are my joy. You are worth tens of thousands.
Mother, before God, I say, my voice shaking with tears, I swear that I have to believe that there is more for me in life than being wife to one man after another, and hoping not to die in childbirth!
He is my brother, I said. I cannot desert him.You can go to your own death, William said. Or you can survive this, bring up your children, and guard Anne's little girl who will be shamed and bastardiz...
Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.
I wanted to get away from him before he led me into talking, before he made me feel angry, or grieved, or jealous all over again. I did not want to feel anything for him, not desire, not resentment. I...
And now I wnt love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.
Of the ancient cities of Greece and
Never see them again. Surely, a couple so young, so
Then life taught me a harder lesson, beloved: it is better to forgive an enemy than destroy him.
A parcel--taken from one place to another, handed from one owner to another, unwrapped and bundled up at will--is all that I am. A vessel, for the bearing of sons, for one nobleman or another: it hard...
And now I want love. Lust is no good for me. I want love. His love.
Terrible roar,