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.

He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.

One never gets the same summer twice.

Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.

I have learned the power of surviving.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.