The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

I felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition - the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress and us to this savage battle.

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

He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.

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

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

I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.