I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.

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

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.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.

The truth is the last thing that matters,' she said. 'And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.