I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.