For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.

Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.

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

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

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.

But I don't forget and I don't forgive.

I have learned the power of surviving.