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

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.

I am too dark in my heart tonight.

When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.

They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.

It is no small thing, this, for a woman: freedom.