Supposed to live a
What better way could they spend the last days of the world, than falling in love?
Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
Open those beautiful eyes of yours and tell lies for us. ♦
I did not seek love with Thomas, but I did not resist it. And now I am trapped in desire like a butterfly with its feet in honey, and the more I struggle, the deeper I sink.
I am too young to understand that a man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, know that they are utterly and hopelessly different.
I am so tired; all I want to do is sleep. I want to sleep all the day, from dawn until twilight that every evening comes a little earlier and a little more drearily. In the daytime, all I can think ab...
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.
A title like ‘the Lady,’ for those who are too mealymouthed to call a whore a whore.
Time of waiting,
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...
Yes, Your Grace, I correct her. I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and...
There is nothing to fear,' she says to me softly. 'There is never anything to fear. The worst fear is of fear itself, and you can conquer that.' 'How?' I murmur. It feels as if I am talking in my slee...
The world hasn't changed that much; men still rule.
Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
Jane would be the next queen and her children, when she had them, would be the next princes or princesses. Or she might wait, as the other queens had waited, every month, desperate to know that she ha...
If I cannot be with my sister, then I don't want any bedfellow at all.
I was not nervous. For the first time ever I felt as if I had taken my life into my own hands and I could command my own destiny. For once I was obedient neither to uncle nor father nor king, but foll...
I think my heart has broken, but I have offered the fragments to God.
I raised my hand to wave in case he looked back; but he did not. He rode straight backed, looking forward. He rode like a Howard. We never look back. We have no time for regrets or second thoughts. If...