You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

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.

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

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

I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.

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

Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.