You're not cursed daughter, you are the finest and rarest of all my children, the most beautiful, the most beloved. You know that. What curse could stick to you?' The gaze she turns on me is darkened...
The truth is the last thing that matters.
I've just written out the death certificate,' the doctor said cheerfully. 'Natural causes of course. She was eighty-eight. I think it was the Beaujolais Nouveau, I warned her not to drink it after Chr...
I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.
Father William has sent the Host in the Monstrance from the chapel and they put it on my prie dieu so I can fix my eyes on the body of the Lord. I have to say I am much less impressed by crucifixion n...
It is easier to take a country into war than to bring it to live at peace,
We stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it were written in letters of fire, what ending a girl may expect if she defies the rules...
Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
Poor little girl. Poor little girl, Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whos...
Oricare ar fi limba ce o povestește, pe orice melodie ar fi cântată, tragedia Melusinei e aceasta: bărbatul îi va promite întotdeauna mai mult decât îi stă în putință unei femei pe care n-o poate înțe...
If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go.
I would like you to have a beautiful day every day.
I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his he...
I cannot catch courage from his smile. I have to do this all entirely alone, with thousands of strangers watching my every movement. Nothing is to detract from my rise from gentry woman to Queen of En...
He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?
He may make me feel like a fool, and like a woman who can do nothing, but what I can do I will. In my jewellery box is a dark locket of black tarnished silver and inside it locked in the darkness, I h...
Have learned that the most precious thing is a place where you can be as you are, where someone can see you as your true self.
Saddle, brushes down my gown, hands me my hat,
King himself is as sunny as the mornings. He declares that he is well again, much better,
You are my heart. Even if you are a broken heart