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

The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.

I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.

When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.

I have given my word that only death will take me from you.

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

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.