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...
Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled with her uncle, or with any of the men at court that could have been her allies. She did not care who h...
You don't need to struggle, your baby is coming. Help him come to us, open your body and let him come into the world. You give birth, you don't force birth or besiege it. It's not a battle, it's an ac...
There is nothing that sickens a country more than its own people fighting against one another. It destroys families; it is killing us daily.
The most powerful men of the kingdom have dragged a duchess down and sent her out to be a marvel to the common people of London. They are so deeply afraid of her that they took the risk to dishonor th...
She never thought when she overthrew a queen that thereafter all queens would be unsteady.
Luca saw her bloodstained hands as the clerk bound them with a rope, and Luca realized that she was a thing of horror, a beautiful thing of horror, the worst thing between heaven and hell: a fallen an...
I can’t think why men would believe that it is a better world where something beautiful is destroyed and something broken left in its place.
I am fit to capture a unicorn, and I should not be so questioned.
Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her own thoughts a muddle, they do to her. They use their learning as a hurdle to herd...
I have heard ballads of great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of a leader. But I did not know that war was nothing more than butchery, as savage and unskilled as sticking...
It is easier to unleash evil than call it back again. Any fool can blow up a wind, but who can know where it will blow or when it will stop?
If everyone in Christendom ate nothing but fish on Friday, then the fishermen and their children would eat well the rest of the week.
I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
I don’t want to help, I want to hinder. I adore your hair, I like to see it loose.
I could see the condemned man, accompanied by his priest, walk slowly from the Tower toward the green where the wooden platform was waiting, the block of wood placed center stage, the executioner dres...
I can tell you my heart turned to stone at York, he says to me frankly. Freezing cold wind and a rain that could cut through you, and the faces of the women like stone itself. They looked at me as if...
He could not have got through the Sierra Nevada if she had not been sending him men and digging teams to level the road for him. No one else could have driven a road through there. He would have trust...
But the magic moment when he walks alone has not yet happened, and I was praying he would do it before I have to leave. Now he will take his first step without me. And every step thereafter, I know. E...
Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.